mutineer

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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

He has spent months at sea on ships in the Pacific and Arctic, and once stayed on Pitcairn Island with a direct descendant of Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2023

Even Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., perhaps Congress’ most notorious recent mutineer, did well.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2022

And so it happened that Mr. Nathaniel Bacon, so lately dubbed a "rebel" and a "mutineer," took his seat, not merely in the House of Burgesses, but in the more distinguished body, "his Majesty's Council."

From The Story of Bacon's Rebellion by Stanard, Mary Newton