tort
noun
1 tort
law Any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought.
synonym: civil wrong.
Roget 923:
wrong;
what ought not to be,
what should not be;
malum in se [Lat.];
unreasonableness,
grievance;
shame.
injustice;
tort [Law];
unfairness
etc.
adj.;
iniquity,
foul play.
partiality,
leaning,
bias;
favor,
favoritism;
nepotism,
party spirit,
partisanship;
bigotry.
undueness
etc.
925;
wrongdoing
(vice)
945;
unlawfulness
etc.
964.
robbing Peter to pay Paul
etc.
v.;
the wolf and the lamb;
vice
etc.
945.
a custom more honored in the breach than the a custom more honored in the breach than the observance"
[Hamlet].
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Roget 925:
undueness
etc.
adj.;
malum prohibitum [Lat.];
impropriety;
illegality
etc.
964.
falseness
etc.
adj.;
emptiness of title,
invalidity of title;
illegitimacy.
loss of right,
disfranchisement,
forfeiture.
usurpation,
tort,
violation,
breach,
encroachment,
presumption,
assumption,
seizure;
stretch,
exaction,
imposition,
lion's share.
usurper,
pretender.
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Dutch: onrechtmatige daad
Polish: delikt
Moby thesaurus: atrocity, breach, crime, crime against humanity, deadly sin, delict, delinquency, dereliction, diablerie, enormity, error, evil, failure, fault, felony, genocide, guilty act, heavy sin, illegality, impropriety, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, iniquity, injury, injustice, lapse, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, minor wrong, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, mortal sin, nonfeasance, offense, omission, outrage, peccadillo, peccancy, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slip, transgression, trespass, trip, unutterable sin, venial sin, violation, wrong, wrongdoing ... show more.
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