mutineer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of mutineer
1600–10; < Middle French mutinier, equivalent to mutin mutiny, mutinous ( meut ( e ) mutiny < Vulgar Latin *movita, feminine of *movitus, variant of Latin mōtus, past participle of movēre to move + -in -ine 1 ) + -ier -ier 2; -eer
Example Sentences
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Seeing Samary revealed as the coup spokesman, Tévoédjrè was dismayed to realize he had sent a mutineer to stop a mutiny.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
The lead mutineer was a deckhand named Liu Guiduo.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2023
Even Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., perhaps Congress’ most notorious recent mutineer, did well.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2022
“I’ve never known a better seaman, but as a man, he’s a snake,” says Clark Gable as mutineer Fletcher Christian in the 1935 version.
From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2020
Doorga Sing promised to find for me one or two other mutineer sepoys who knew more about this European and his antecedents than he himself did.
From Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude by Forbes-Mitchell, William
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