0 (especially of a sailor or a soldier) refusing to obey orders or attempting to take control from people in authority: --
Black also informed his father that the soldiers were "the most disagreeable, mutinous set of villains that ever entered into a ship".
Hafs, though unwilling, was restored by the mutinous troops as governor.
Gently plucked acoustic guitars will suddenly be ripped apart by a mutinous fuzzbox, seemingly at random.
Portuguese captains openly questioned the leadership of the captain major with mutinous demonstrations.
As to the mutinous soldiers, they were motivated by despair, not by politics or pacifism.
At around 3:30 pm, more mutinous royal forces arrived to reinforce the crowd, bringing with them trained infantry officers and several cannons.
We hope that making prisons more decent places in which to live will help to reduce tensions and to prevent a climate in which mutinous behaviour could develop.
We have been called mutinous.
