adj injurious: tortious.
2. tortuous ·adj fig.: deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
3. tortuous ·adj oblique;
applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from capricorn to gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
4. tortuous ·adj bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.