as in unexplainable
impossible to explain
the decorator's client has an unaccountable dislike for that color
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Recent Examples of unaccountable
But that reform ought to come from Congress—not a few hundred unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats.
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Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Unfortunately, today, USAID has become a web of largely unaccountable bureaucrats with many questionable programs and staff that consider it more a charitable nongovernmental organization than an agency that’s meant to work on behalf of taxpayers.
—Michael Baumgartner, National Review, 14 Feb. 2025
Reinsdorf, who turns 89 next month, remains unaccountable, having sworn off the local media years ago on the advice of his advisers.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
In that vein, the House GOP’s campaign arm blasted the Democrats’ new letter, vilifying federal workers as overpaid and unaccountable.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 24 Feb. 2025
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Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Unfortunately, today, USAID has become a web of largely unaccountable bureaucrats with many questionable programs and staff that consider it more a charitable nongovernmental organization than an agency that’s meant to work on behalf of taxpayers.
—Michael Baumgartner, National Review, 14 Feb. 2025
Reinsdorf, who turns 89 next month, remains unaccountable, having sworn off the local media years ago on the advice of his advisers.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
In that vein, the House GOP’s campaign arm blasted the Democrats’ new letter, vilifying federal workers as overpaid and unaccountable.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaccountable
Adjective
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The story follows the three Maxwell siblings who grew up as the only Black family in a gated Dallas neighborhood, also tormented by strange and unexplainable demonic happenings in their house.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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Back in 2021, the Housewives Institute came up with the 100 most unhinged, unexplainable, and unforgettable moments in the 15 years that the franchise had been on the air up to that point.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
19 July 2024
Adjective
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Judge orders transgender passports despite 'irrational' Trump policy.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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And then there’s the emotional, irrational lift of gilt and glory, the baroque architecture, the Renaissance art, the history stretching back to Jesus and Saint Peter.—
Howard Chua-Eoan,
Mercury News,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The abrupt and inexplicable shifts have been dizzying and destabilizing to anyone in the business world, where predictability is the soil in which the seeds of investment get planted.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
27 Apr. 2025
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Few trends seem as inexplicable as the one which is sweeping through Hollywood at the moment.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Now, at full boil, travelers are increasingly complaining about an unreasonable lack of legroom and other basic comforts.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
1 May 2025
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Add in at least $20 million to the athletics compensation pool via direct payments coming in the wake of the House settlement — the majority of which is ticketed for football at most P4 schools — and getting above $30 million isn’t unreasonable for a program like Ohio State or Texas.—
Sam Khan Jr.,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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“Unaccountable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaccountable. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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