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Meaning of mutinous in English

mutinous
adjective
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/ˈmjuː.tɪ.nəs/ us
/ˈmjuː.tən.əs/
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(especially of a sailor or a soldier) refusing to obey orders or attempting to take control from people in authority:
The mutinous sailors took control of the ship.
Mutinous soldiers occupied the state radio station in the capital.
refusing or not willing to do what you are told to do:
She gave him a mutinous look and snatched the cup from under his nose.
Still mutinous, the boys resisted being sent to their bedroom.
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(Definition of mutinous from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of mutinous

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They are discriminated in every field and the police oppression is making the whole community mutinous.
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The former found support among rebellious students and intellectuals, while the latter depended for his authority on mutinous soldiers.
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The system collapsed into a vacuum, populated by mutinous doctors and dentists.
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We can prosecute anyone who distributes his mutinous pamphlets.
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However, one cannot stop that process by saying that the conversation is mutinous.
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We can prosecute him if he distributes mutinous pamphlets.
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That is the point we want to make, that this really applies to something that is seditious and mutinous, and not to what we think is a perfectly legitimate criticism.
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We have been called mutinous.
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We hope that making prisons more decent places in which to live will help to reduce tensions and to prevent a climate in which mutinous behaviour could develop.
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At around 3:30 pm, more mutinous royal forces arrived to reinforce the crowd, bringing with them trained infantry officers and several cannons.
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As to the mutinous soldiers, they were motivated by despair, not by politics or pacifism.
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Portuguese captains openly questioned the leadership of the captain major with mutinous demonstrations.
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Gently plucked acoustic guitars will suddenly be ripped apart by a mutinous fuzzbox, seemingly at random.
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Hafs, though unwilling, was restored by the mutinous troops as governor.
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Black also informed his father that the soldiers were "the most disagreeable, mutinous set of villains that ever entered into a ship".
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in Chinese (Traditional)
反叛的，叛逆的, 嘩變的, 表示抗議的…
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反叛的，叛逆的, 哗变的, 表示抗议的…
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rebelde…
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amotinado…
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