Definition of "tortious"

tortious

/ˈtɔːʃəs/

adjective
comparative more tortious, superlative most tortious
1. (obsolete) Wrongful; harmful.
  Quotations
  he found great store of hoorded threasure, / The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong / And tortious powre […]
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
2. (law) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.