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mutinously

[ myoot-n-uhs-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a way that expresses resistance to or revolt against authority:

    My disgruntled toddler was sitting mutinously on the couch, clutching the remote and challenging me to remove it from him.



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Other Words From

  • non·mu·ti·nous·ly adverb
  • un·mu·ti·nous·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

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Example Sentences

It’s also, perhaps more mutinously, about making everyone else look a bit more queer.

He took the blow stoically enough when Harry told him, merely grunting and shrugging, but Harry had the distinct feeling as he walked away that Dean and Seamus were muttering mutinously behind his back.

No, it is not a slippery slope from removing mutinously erected statues of Lee to dynamiting monuments to George Washington.

Every time I would go home it was a kind of silent assault, the only placemat sitting there mutinously without a plate.

From Salon

But Betty only shook her head—mutinously so as I chose to think in my green-eyed madness.

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