How to Use unaccountable in a Sentence

unaccountable

adjective

• She has shown an unaccountable reluctance to accept their offer.
• Saudis seem to be adapting to the likelihood that one unaccountable man will rule them for decades to come.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• Yes, the virus seems unaccountable to our best efforts and fueled by our worst instincts.
  — Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
• The CFPB also is far from a rogue agency, unaccountable to the public.
  — WSJ, 18 Mar. 2017
• But vast swathes of the web that might function well as commons have been left in the hands of rich, relatively unaccountable tech firms.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• And now, as noted above, the Fed has joined this happy, largely unaccountable band, something that Cochrane has . . .
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 27 Mar. 2021
• Its politicians are in a venal class of their own, more unaccountable than any others in the eurozone.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2023
• In other parts of the world, patience with unaccountable power may be growing thin.
  — Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 16 July 2024
• These dissidents view the monarchy in its current form as opaque and unaccountable.
  — Tassanee Vejpongsa, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2020
• Congress should write the rules – not punt to unaccountable bureaucrats.
  — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 28 June 2024
• This has been long overdue—the courts have, like Congress, been happy to pass the buck to unaccountable government bureaucrats.
  — WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
• That’s as a good a way as any as summarizing the content of the films in the Music Box series, which drift from one episode to another with unaccountable logic.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 1 Mar. 2018
• In the wake of a year defined by populist anger and distrust of elites, Twitter made Trump accessible to the masses and unaccountable to the media in a way that Hillary Clinton couldn’t.
  — vanityfair.com, 2 Jan. 2017
• The root of Protestantism, after all, is protest — against arbitrary and unaccountable authority in the name of a higher truth.
  — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• As long as those maps stay in force, an unaccountable faction of politicians will hold the state’s political system hostage.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
• Why should ruling the country in robes, unaccountable to anyone, be solely our province?
  — Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
• Many have endured one-party or military rule, and know that unaccountable rulers abuse.
  — The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
• That threat can be summed up as follows: More and more unaccountable bureaucrats exercising more and more control over more and more of the affairs of more and more people.
  — WSJ, 13 Feb. 2019
• Here and there, though, authority had faltered, and by an unaccountable oversight there were oases of beauty—oases that made the desecration of the greater part of the road the more unbearable.
  — Rachel Carson, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1950
• Or had he in some unaccountable way gifted beauty upon her?
  — Graham Swift, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2024
• So even if the OpenAI board still technically called the shots, the halcyon days of being unaccountable ended.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2023
• The unaccountable market, with EU technocrats as minders, trumped the democratic state.
  — Robert Kuttner, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• But the most troubling thing, according to researchers, is simply how opaque and unaccountable these quasi-medical tools are.
  — Maia Szalavitz, Wired, 11 Aug. 2021
• No player in all-blue was unaccountable for their poor opening, as Reading started well, however, Chelsea grew into the game much due to the performance of Ross Barkley.
  — SI.com, 28 July 2019
• Boo Irving’s smug, unaccountable butt so loudly that the parquet floor looks like its tectonic plates are shifting.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2021
• In an era when voters turn to insurgents to wrest power from unaccountable bureaucracies, voters have no way to do the same in Brussels.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
• The result of this is that the court attempted to strike a balance between a vulnerable office holder on one hand and a wholly unaccountable tyrant on the other.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2024
• Occasionally, the waitstaff there hear unaccountable creaking, or an item falls off a shelf, or a light flickers.
  — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2021
• Have a billionaire owner who is completely unaccountable or present over the course of his 16-year ownership.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2021
• There’s the strong suggestion that rural Austria was a land of unspoiled goodness before an unaccountable alien force entered in.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 13 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024