Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a mutinous manner; seditiously.
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- adverb In a
mutinous manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Billy did not start immediately after they had said good-by, and he and Saxon, heads over shoulders, watched the roused Barbarossa plunging mutinously on toward Santa Rosa.
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You'd hesitate to describe Capello as whimsical but, as he sat mutinously in the stands at Anfield on Monday night, perhaps he took a look at the cat that wandered into the Tottenham penalty area and thought: "You've impressed me as much as anyone else English on the pitch tonight."
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He shook his head mutinously, and the cloudy deeps of his eyes grew more cloudy.
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Dick lazily hauled himself off the couch and stood up, shaking his head mutinously, as if tossing a mane, and stamping ponderously with his feet in simulation of Mountain Lad.
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Kellen stuck the wounded digit into his mouth and sucked on it mutinously.
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She flung herself mutinously into her chair; when Carmine spoke in that tone, even God had to shut up and listen.
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Thus "Lorna Brown and Lucian Msamati, mutinously subservient in the first half, convincingly show the emergence of a black couple's economic power", says Billington.
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He settled mutinously onto the sofa and looked at the television again.
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We eyed each other mutinously, then something seemed to falter within her.
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We eyed each other mutinously, then something seemed to falter within her.
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