Tortious
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈtÉ”Ëʃəs/
Origin
From Anglo-Norman torcious.
Full definition of tortious
Adjective
tortious
- (obsolete) Wrongful; harmful.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.9:he found great store of hoorded threasure,
The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong
And tortious powre …. - (legal) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.