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Thesaurus: tortious

Injurious; wrongful.

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Definitions

  1. a. Injurious; wrongful.
  2. a. Imploying tort, or privat injury for which the law gives damages; involing tort.
  3. adj. of or pertaining to the nature of a tort
  4. 1. Injurious; wrongful. [Obs.] "Tortious power." Spenser. 2. (Law) Imploying tort, or privat injury for which the law gives damages; involing tort.
  5. Imploying tort, or privat injury for which the law givesdamages; involing tort.
  6. j:100 a. of or pertaining to the nature of a tort