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Mutinously

Mutinous \Mu"ti*nous\, a. [See Mutiny.] Disposed to mutiny; in a state of mutiny; characterized by mutiny; seditious; insubordinate.

The city was becoming mutinous.
--Macaulay. [1913 Webster] -- Mu"ti*nous*ly, adv. -- Mu"ti*nous*ness, n.

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mutinously

adv. In a mutinous manner.

Usage examples of "mutinously".

They had continued to behave mutinously even after the payment of their bounty and their General could do nothing with them.

Already one of the armed Stenos guards, presumably carefully picked by the vice-captain, looked mutinously jubilant and chattered hopefully with Wattaceti.

She had responded with a volley of shrieking curses that shocked the poor Scholar who was escorting her, and in the Senior Common Room she'd slumped mutinously in an armchair until the Master told her sharply to sit up, and then she'd glowered at them all till even the Chaplain had to laugh.