"tortious" meaning in English

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      "form": "more tortious",
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          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "he found great store of hoorded threasure, / The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong / And tortious powre […]",
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        "Wrongful; harmful."
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        "(obsolete) Wrongful; harmful."
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        "Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts."
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        "(law) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts."
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      "word": "tortious interference"
    },
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      "word": "tortiousness"
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        "Wrongful; harmful."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) Wrongful; harmful."
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        "(law) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts."
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      "sense": "wrongful",
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  "word": "tortious"
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