mutinously

[ myoot-n-uhs-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in a way that expresses resistance to or revolt against authority:
My disgruntled toddler was sitting mutinously on the couch, clutching the remote and challenging me to remove it from him.

And Nichette, mutinously obedient, ran away, leaving Persis shivering indeed with a chill.

She shut her lips tightly over her little clenched teeth, and he saw the blue eyes flash mutinously.

Her small breast arose mutinously, while that cast-off sensation kept growing and growing.

Dinah (mutinously, rising quickly and crossing to stool on which she kneels and looks up into George's face and bangs the table).

Heretofore they must have been traitorously below their duty, or now mutinously beyond it.

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