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tortious
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[ˈtɔːʃəs], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- constituting a tort; wrongful
(e.g: this does not make the act tortious)
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Origin
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late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French torcious, from the stem of torcion ‘extortion, violence’, from late Latin tortio(n-) (see torsion). The original sense was ‘injurious’
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