unaccountable

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[ US /ˌənəˈkaʊntəbəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ʌnɐkˈa‍ʊntəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not to be accounted for or explained
    an unexplainable fear
    perceptible only as unaccountable influences that hinder progress
  2. free from control or responsibility
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How To Use unaccountable In A Sentence

  • That is not democracy or power to the people - it is all power to an autarchy of unaccountable conservative central bankers.
  • But both are tyrannies, utterly unaccountable to the people they rule. The Sun
  • Reserves are cesspools of corruption and all band councils are poorly managed and unaccountable.
  • He is absolutely unaccountable and is never second guessed.
  • Judges are unelected and largely unaccountable. Times, Sunday Times
  • For too long we have had too many people who are unaccountable with a licence to meddle in people 's lives. The Sun
  • From the way they are built, but oftener from the way they are kept, and from no intelligent inspection whatever being exercised over them, they are almost invariably dens of foul air, and the "servants 'health" suffers in an "unaccountable" (?) way, even in the country. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
  • I had never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre, — and that was, the unaccountable sport of Nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs. — A sentimental journey through France and Italy
  • I had never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre, - and that was, the unaccountable sport of Nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs. A Sentimental Journey
  • For some strange, unaccountable reason, I didn't make the cut.
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