What's the difference between muticous and mutinous?
Muticous
Definition:
(a.) Without a point or pointed process; blunt.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the following two years, he gradually became mutic and incontinent with dystonic involuntary movements, and was admitted to our hospital.
Mutinous
Definition:
(a.) Disposed to mutiny; in a state of mutiny; characterized by mutiny; seditious; insubordinate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The agents remain steely and mutinous, their eyes fixed on a distant plot of land in James Street, Covent Garden, where they could all start a new life.
(2) Military officials said one of the mutineers was killed and six were wounded in the fighting, and tanks and armoured vehicles were later deployed around the palace.
(3) And the setting of a spending review for June is bound to provoke months of mutinous muttering from ministers in charge of unprotected departments (see Vince Cable, Theresa May and Philip Hammond ).
(4) As in most mutinous them-and-us industrial confrontations it had been simmering for years and then boiled over for what seemed the most trifling of reasons.
(5) Corbyn also faces a mutinous parliamentary Labour party .
(6) I was put in mind of Ernest Shackleton, stranded on a sheet of ice, his policies crushed to fragments, his men mutinous.
(7) The most serious coup attempt against her, in December 1989, was quashed only when a flyover by US jets deterred mutinous soldiers.
(8) What a Lovely War, The Monocled Mutineer and Blackadder, as a misbegotten shambles – a series of catastrophic mistakes perpetrated by an out-of-touch elite.
(9) Any record collection ought to contain copies of Mr Bad Example, Mutineer, Life'll Kill Ya or My Ride's Here, this latter featuring Warren's best buddies Hunter S Thompson, novelist Carl Hiaasen and David Letterman.
(10) Town after town has fallen, and now the mutineers almost have the gates of the provincial capital, Goma, within their sights, just as Nkunda did in 2008.
(11) Western governments are wary of dealing with mutinous middle-ranking army officials led by Amadou Sanogo, who maintains a tenuous grip on power and faces a resurgent, decades-old independence movement with links to AQIM.
(12) His article in the Daily Mail last Friday, attacking "leftwing academics all too happy to feed the myths" of Blackadder and The Monocled Mutineer , was clever but unwary journalism.
(13) But the speed with which American commentators, reacting to McChrystal's mutinous behaviour, moved to stress the need to control the generals indicated uneasiness about current trends.
(14) Of course, my mother also knows that and my grandmother knows that.” On Saturday there was applause and oohs and aahs, and no mutinous noises.
(15) Nor that he has to cosy up to paranoid weirdos like the Professor, who wears a steampunk suicide vest under his overcoat at all times, just in case something mutinous goes down.
(16) Come on Grahame, name the ‘mutineers’!” he responded on Twitter.
(17) To avoid this catastrophe, Stevens should train his frontline officers, the senior partners in GP practices and hospital consultants, to be leaders, motivated to take the mutinous trolls into a different and better sort of world.
(18) The parliamentary Labour party The mutinous mood of Labour MPs on Monday night was always going to be a bad news story, but it turned into something much worse – a tale of Corbyn somehow losing all control before he’d even assumed it.
(19) What a Lovely War , The Monocled Mutineer and Blackadder .
(20) For a while the mutinous crowd teetered on open revolt, only for Hull to surrender the initiative.