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tortious¹

  • /ˈtɔːʃəs/ UK
  • /ˈtɔɹʃəs/ US

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

adjective more tortious · most tortious

  1. obsolete Wrongful; harmful. he found great store of hoorded threasure, / The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong / And tortious powre […]

    Similar: wrongful

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

tortious²

  • /ˈtɔːʃəs/ UK
  • /ˈtɔɹʃəs/ US

adjective more tortious · most tortious

  1. misspelling Misspelling of tortuous Burr continued to preside over the Senate with matchless grace and dignity, addressed it finally in the farewell speech which moved his enemies to tears, and wandered off into the tortious windings of political intrigue.

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"tortious." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tortious. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"tortious." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tortious.

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@misc{tortious_2026,
  title = {tortious},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tortious},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}