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   tortious

   /ˈtɔːʃəs/

   adjective

   • 1. constituting a tort; wrongful: "this does not make the act tortious"

   Word Origin 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’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. tortiously adverb

   Scrabble Points: 8

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