tortious

What it means

1. obsoleteWrongful; harmful.

   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, →OCLC

   Synonyms: wrongful

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

In a sentence

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, →OCLC

Where it comes from

1. Anglo-Normantorcious
2. Middle Englishtorcious
3. Englishtortious

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