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                                	tortile |
                                	tortility |
                                	tortilla |
                                	tortilla chip |
                                	tortion |
                                tortious
                                	| tortiously 
                                	| tortive 
                                	| tortoise 
                                	| tortoise plant 
                                	| tortoise shell 
                            
        tortious
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective tortious has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
tortious, a. [From Tort.]. 
                                            -                                     Injurious; wrongful. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
-                                     Imploying tort, or privat injury for which the law gives damages; involing tort. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tortious, adj.  Law constituting a tort; wrongful.
                    Derivative
                        tortiously adv.
                                                                Etymology
                        AF torcious f.  torcion extortion f. LL tortio torture: see TORSION
                                    ROGET THESAURUS
tortious
Wrong
N wrong, what ought not to be, what should not be, malum in se, unreasonableness, grievance, shame, injustice, tort, unfairness, iniquity, foul play, partiality, leaning, bias, favor, favoritism, nepotism, party spirit, partisanship, bigotry, undueness, wrongdoing (vice), unlawfulness, robbing Peter to pay Paul, the wolf and the lamb, vice, a custom more honored in the breach than the obser, wrong, wrongful, bad, too bad, unjust, unfair, inequitable, unequitable, unequal, partial, one-sided, injurious, tortious, objectionable, unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable, unjustifiable, improper, unfit, unjustified, illegal, iniquitous, immoral, in the wrong, in the wrong box, wrongly, it will not do.Undueness
N undueness, malum prohibitum, impropriety, illegality, falseness, emptiness of title, invalidity of title, illegitimacy, loss of right, disfranchisement, forfeiture, usurpation, tort, violation, breach, encroachment, presumption, assumption, seizure, stretch, exaction, imposition, lion's share, usurper, pretender, undue, unlawful, unconstitutional, illicit, unauthorized, unwarranted, disallowed, unallowed, unsanctioned, unjustified, unentitled, disentitled, unqualified, disqualified, unprivileged, unchartered, illegitimate, bastard, spurious, supposititious, false, usurped, tortious, undeserved, unmerited, unearned, unfulfilled, forfeited, disfranchised, improper, unmeet, unfit, unbefitting, unseemly, unbecoming, misbecoming, seemless, contra bonos mores, not the thing, out of the question, not to be thought of, preposterous, pretentious, would-be, filius nullius.
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