Definition of UNACCOUNTABLY

Examples of unaccountably in a Sentence

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

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Screening-room attendees who scoffed at Ma’s illogic (her house unaccountably filled with spooky African masks) had already fallen for the absurdities of Us and Get Out. — Armond White, National Review, "Ma’s Black-Mammy Stereotypes Capture the Illiberal Spirit," 7 June 2019 That tube eventually comes in three sizes: large, extra-large and extra-extra-large; the first run, in small, medium and large, unaccountably saw some astronauts fitted with the wrong size. — Oliver Morton, WIRED, "The Beauty and Madness of Sending a Man to the Moon," 4 June 2019 Extreme thrift—soon to be an Olympic sport!—has proven almost unaccountably rewarding. — Redbook, "3 Women Who've Learned to Be Happy Living on Less Money," 24 Nov. 2011 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

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