MUTINOUSNESS Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

mutinousness

noun

Definition of mutinousness

as in mulishness

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Noun

Google DeepMind is struggling to retain its technical edge, keep hold of top researchers, and contain an employee revolt over its defense work.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
And, at least for now, despite the threat of revolt, internal pressure within FIFA appears to have abated.

— Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of revolt

Noun

The movie is essentially an old-fashioned story of one lad’s sentimental education, spiced up with NSFW perversity.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2026
This week, at the men’s Summer 2027 Saint Laurent show in Paris, creative director Anthony Vaccarello showed a collection of quiet perversity disrupted by a starling pair of foot-baring shoes.

— Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 26 June 2026

Definition of perversity

Noun

As Port falls in with a group of conspirators preparing for the insurrection, the book takes on a hallucinatory, digressive quality, blurring the lines between life and death, reality and illusion.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Stephen Colbert’s award-winning Late Show was canceled in a move that many have labeled political appeasement, and the flagship evening newscast baselessly recast the January 6 insurrection as a partisan squabble.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of insurrection

Noun

This stubbornness could cost Republicans another seat, as the Cook Political Report has shifted the race to a toss-up over the scandal.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2026
And the stubbornness of that demand is, to me, the most important and most underappreciated story in rental housing right now.

— Brad Hunter, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of stubbornness

Noun

Starmer’s realism—or obstinacy, depending on your point of view—had seen off an immediate challenge.

— Sam Knight, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
The natural obstinacy and rebelliousness of Israa’s teenage years are hyperaccelerated by culture clashes with both her family and the other kids around her.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2026

Definition of obstinacy

Noun

Armed insurgencies by Boko Haram in the north and separatists in the west, along with a stagnant economy, have left many young people disillusioned with the leader.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
Boko Haram has waged an insurgency for nearly two decades, killing tens of thousands of Nigerians.

— Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of insurgency

Noun

At the start of the summer, Infantino seemed untouchable but there is a mood of mutiny in the air.

— Simon Hughes, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
For years, they have been stuck at sea with their leader, the great warrior king Odysseus (Matt Damon), trying to find a route home to Ithaca; hunger and desperation have spurred his fiery second-in-command, Eurylochus (Himesh Patel), toward mutiny.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 July 2026

Definition of mutiny

Noun

Food safety experts say that the accumulation of outbreaks this summer is striking but that tracking the number of outbreaks — or recalls, for that matter — isn’t the best way to capture the risk from foodborne pathogens.

— Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
Earlier, officials confirmed that a 4-year-old boy was killed when a tree toppled on his home in Indiana on Tuesday amid an outbreak of severe weather.

— Michelle Simmons, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026

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