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.

Other Words From

• non·mu·ti·nous·ly adverb
• un·mu·ti·nous·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of mutinously¹

mutinous ( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

And Nichette, mutinously obedient, ran away, leaving Persis shivering indeed with a chill.

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She shut her lips tightly over her little clenched teeth, and he saw the blue eyes flash mutinously.

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Her small breast arose mutinously, while that cast-off sensation kept growing and growing.

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Dinah (mutinously, rising quickly and crossing to stool on which she kneels and looks up into George's face and bangs the table).

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Heretofore they must have been traitorously below their duty, or now mutinously beyond it.

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