mutinously

American  

[myoot-n-uhs-lee] / ˈmyut n əs li /

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 Word Forms

• nonmutinously adverb
• unmutinously adverb

Etymology

Origin of mutinously

mutinous ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

So to be painted looking mutinously glum – as Kitty Garman was by Lucian Freud in 1947, a year before their marriage – may not be very welcome.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2020

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

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2019

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

From Salon • Aug. 6, 2016

This defection in turn leads Dinesh and Gilfoyle to conspire mutinously to stay at Raviga’s Pied Piper, under the arrogant assumption that they can get the compression platform operating without Richard’s help.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2016

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.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling