unaccountably

adverb un·ac·count·ably \ ˌən-ə-ˈkau̇n-tə-blē \

|Updated on: 30 Jul 2018

Examples: unaccountably in a Sentence

Definition of unaccountably

1 : in an unaccountable manner

looking unaccountably upset

heat was unaccountably disappearing

2 : for reasons that are hard to understand

unaccountably, he stayed right there

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Examples of unaccountably in a Sentence

She was looking unaccountably upset.
Unaccountably, the problem was ignored.

Recent Examples of unaccountably from the Web

After a few unpleasant incidents — a few years ago, for instance, someone unaccountably stole the F1, F2, F3 and Y keys — there was talk about moving the monument to a different city.

— sarah lyall, New York Times, "Move Over, Lenin: Make Room for the Computer Keyboard," 3 July 2018
Superheroes are always unaccountably dodging bullets and getting to the bomb in the nick of time; the greatest superpower of all is being the protagonist and having the writers on your side.

— noah berlatsky, The Verge, "The best superhero stories admit that superheroes are ridiculous," 11 July 2018
But when Lehman Brothers, a firm about 50% larger than Bear, began to totter six months later, the Treasury unaccountably reversed its policy.

— peter j. wallison, WSJ, "The Treasury Still Needs to Bid Adios to OLA," 4 Mar. 2018
To behold those lines for the first time was to see language unaccountably capturing emotions in a way unfamiliar in recent American prose.

— rick moody, New York Times, "Denis Johnson’s Death-Infused Last Stories," 25 Jan. 2018
One player reported that his supply of pills had, unaccountably, dwindled.

— jon wertheim, SI.com, "The Power, Promise and Pitfalls of Adderall Are Well Known at One Fabled Tennis Program," 21 Dec. 2017
Investment, unaccountably low at 20% or less of GDP for 15 years, is also finally perking up.

— the editorial board, WSJ, "The German Miracle," 15 Aug. 2017
But the latest sales trend makes 2% look more likely than 3% (unaccountably, P&G doesn’t do decimal places).

— stephen wilmot, WSJ, "P&G Does Itself No Favors Post-Peltz," 20 Oct. 2017
The chemistry between these two attractive people and fine actors is unaccountably bad.

— gary thompson, Philly.com, "'The Mountain Between Us' is a titanic waste of time," 4 Oct. 2017

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