unaccountably
adverb
un·ac·count·ably
ˌən-ə-ˈkau̇n-tə-blē 
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
Examples of unaccountably in a Sentence
She was looking unaccountably upset.
Unaccountably, the problem was ignored.
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The series originated as a four-painting commission by Madame du Barry, lover of Louis XV, who unaccountably rejected the results.
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Holland Cotter, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2025
But the rest is just Burt Reynolds, known at the time for displaying Elvis Presley–level acting chops in a series of unaccountably popular movies with titles like Gator and Hooper.
—Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
And her husband, Jacob (Antonio Banderas), a lauded and unaccountably hot stage director, adores her, both in the bedroom and outside it.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 25 Dec. 2024
Not ambition to succeed on the world’s terms (though that asserted its own maddening static) but ambition to find forms for the seethe of rage, remembrance, and wild vitality that seemed, unaccountably, like sound inside me, demanding language but prelinguistic, somehow.
—Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
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Holland Cotter, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2025
But the rest is just Burt Reynolds, known at the time for displaying Elvis Presley–level acting chops in a series of unaccountably popular movies with titles like Gator and Hooper.
—Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
And her husband, Jacob (Antonio Banderas), a lauded and unaccountably hot stage director, adores her, both in the bedroom and outside it.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 25 Dec. 2024
Not ambition to succeed on the world’s terms (though that asserted its own maddening static) but ambition to find forms for the seethe of rage, remembrance, and wild vitality that seemed, unaccountably, like sound inside me, demanding language but prelinguistic, somehow.
—Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
See All Example Sentences for unaccountably
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“Unaccountably.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unaccountably. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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