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tortious.

Wrongful; harmful.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈtɔːʃəs/UK/ˈtɔɹʃəs/US
  1. Wrongful; harmful.

    obsolete
  2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle English torcious, from Anglo-Norman torcious. By surface analysis, tort + -ious.

adj/ˈtɔːʃəs/UK/ˈtɔɹʃəs/US
  1. Misspelling of tortuous

    alt-of · misspelling
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