unaccountable
adjective
un·ac·count·able
ˌən-ə-ˈkau̇n-tə-bəl 
1
: not to be accounted for : inexplicable, strange
2
: not to be called to account : not responsible
Examples of unaccountable in a Sentence
She has shown an unaccountable reluctance to accept their offer.
the decorator's client has an unaccountable dislike for that color
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Detractors are concerned that an unelected, unaccountable man holds so much power and is disrupting the federal government mightily from seeking to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to defunding the U.S. Department of Education.
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David Plazas, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Worse, school choice can become an excuse for policymakers to skirt hard and immediately needed conversations about an ineffective public-school curriculum, classrooms that have morphed into screen zombies, or unaccountable teacher and student performance.
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Without clear insight into how AI models make decisions, businesses risk deploying tools that are unaccountable, biased or poorly understood.
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David Plazas, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Worse, school choice can become an excuse for policymakers to skirt hard and immediately needed conversations about an ineffective public-school curriculum, classrooms that have morphed into screen zombies, or unaccountable teacher and student performance.
—Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 18 June 2025
Without clear insight into how AI models make decisions, businesses risk deploying tools that are unaccountable, biased or poorly understood.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
But replacing it with a junta of unaccountable elites—the Putin model—is not an improvement.
—Garry Kasparov, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Unaccountable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unaccountable. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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unaccountable
adjective
un·ac·count·able
ˌən-ə-ˈkau̇nt-ə-bəl
1
2
: not to be called to account : not responsible
unaccountably
adverb
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