tortious

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɔːʃəs/    美 /ˈtɔɹʃəs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Wrongful; harmful. obsolete
    — he found great store of hoorded threasure, / The which that tyrant gathered had by wrong / And tortious powre […]
  2. Misspelling of tortuous alt-of,misspelling
    — Burr continued to preside over the Senate with matchless grace and dignity, addressed it finally in the farewell speech which moved his enemies to tears, and wandered off into the tortious windings of political intrigue.
  3. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.

词形变化

more tortious comparative most tortious superlative more tortious comparative most tortious superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
nontortious tortious interference tortiously tortiousness
相关词
tort

词源

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