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UK
/mjˌuːtɪnˈiə/
]
[ US /ˌmjutəˈnɪɹ/ ]
[ US /ˌmjutəˈnɪɹ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers)
How To Use mutineer In A Sentence
- He was a rebel without a cause, a born mutineer.
- But she said the mutineers would still face court-martial proceedings.
- In the ensuing counteroffensive, four soldiers were killed and four mutineers were beaten to death after being captured.
- For seamen, special patterns of musket were introduced and the musketoon, or blunderbuss, became a shipboard weapon useful for discouraging both boarders and putative mutineers.
- It was only when Gov. Charles Robinson assured them that the "unratified and unproclaimed treaty was not a surrender but a triumph of diplomacy" that the mutineers were quelled.
- Pitcairn was the final landing place for the mutineers from the Bounty who had rebelled against Captain Bligh.
- The American sailors expected to meet a tribe of primal natives, but were instead greeted by a canoe loaded with super-friendly English speaking Anglo-Tahitian mutineer children.
- There had been a mutiny on board, and the mutineers had taken the ship off in search of a fabled lost civilization.
- America wasn't built by conformists, but by mutineers; we're a big brawling, boisterous, bucking people, and now is our time!
- What I'm saying here is that we need to do something akin to a strategic decimation for mutineers.