mutinous

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Susan's eyes were still mutinous, her voice still coldly disapproving.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, engaged in, disposed to, or constituting mutiny. See Synonyms at insubordinate.
  2. adjective Unruly; disaffected: a mutinous child.
  3. adjective Turbulent and uncontrollable: "mutinous passions, and conflicting fears” (Percy Bysshe Shelley).

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  • To have forbidden this would have made the people mutinous, and the Dalmatians, though under the authority of Austria, were no more closely held to neutrality than the Montenegrins. —  The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II
  • Her expression mutinous, Fiona skewered a broiled shrimp. —  Anthology - My Scandalous Bride
  • The garrison are mutinous, and in dreadful want of provisions. —  The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. II
  • Surrounded by doubt and danger; a foreigner among a jealous people; an unpopular commander in a mutinous island; distrusted and slighted by the government he was seeking to serve; and creating suspicion by his very services; he knew not where to look for faithful advice, efficient aid, or candid judgment. —  The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II)
  • Nothing but disgust to be had out of business;--mutinous Polish Diets too, some forty of them, in his time, not one of which did any business at all, but ended in LIBERUM VETO, and Billingsgate conflagration, perhaps with swords drawn: [See Buchholz, 154; ;c.;]--business more and more disagreeable to him. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
 

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  1. From obsolete mutine, mutiny; see mutiny.

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  1. from mutine + -ous.
 

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/ˈmjutɪnəs/
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