mutinous

adjective

mu·​ti·​nous ˈmyü-tə-nəs How to pronounce mutinous (audio)
ˈmyüt-nəs
1
a
: disposed to or being in a state of mutiny : rebellious
a mutinous crew
2
: of, relating to, or constituting mutiny
mutinous threats
mutinously adverb
mutinousness noun

Examples of mutinous in a Sentence

vowed that he would someday see the mutinous crew hang
Recent Examples on the Web The shoot went more than a hundred days over schedule, and the crew nearly turned mutinous. Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023 The first among the recent coups was in Mali, where mutinous soldiers seized power in 2020 and again in 2021, when a military officer ousted the original coup leader. Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2024 Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the violent Wagner mercenary group who in June led his fighters on an aborted mutinous march to Moscow, likely died in a jet crash in Russia on Wednesday with nine others, Russia's Federal Agency for Air Transport said. Henry Austin, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023 After mutinous soldiers seized power in Niger, West African countries froze financial transactions, closed their borders with Niger and cut off most of its electricity supply in an effort to pressure the generals into restoring constitutional order. Elian Peltier, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023 The ouster of Gabon’s president by mutinous soldiers appears to have been well organized and capitalized on the population’s grievances against the government as an excuse to seize power, analysts said. Sam Mednick, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2023 Another group of mutinous soldiers attempted a coup in 2019 but was quickly overpowered. Yves Laurent Goma and Sam Mednick The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2023 Prigozhin leading a mutinous march towards Moscow just weeks ago, now dead. ABC News, 27 Aug. 2023 Fiona Hill, a National Security Council official in the Trump administration, told CBS News that Prigozhin’s death was probably a retaliatory measure after his mutinous march toward Moscow in June. Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1578, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of mutinous was in 1578

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“Mutinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mutinous. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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mutinous

adjective
mu·​ti·​nous ˈmyüt-ᵊn-əs How to pronounce mutinous (audio)
ˈmyüt-nəs
1
: inclined to or in a state of mutiny : rebellious
a mutinous crew
2
: relating to or being mutiny
mutinous acts
mutinously adverb

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