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
Reinsdorf, who turns 89 next month, remains unaccountable, having sworn off the local media years ago on the advice of his advisers.
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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
For far too long, our students have been left behind by woke, unaccountable Washington bureaucrats and a bloated system failing them academically.
—Christopher Tremoglie, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
Our unaccountable sheriffs are a headache for Californians in normal times.
—Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
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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
For far too long, our students have been left behind by woke, unaccountable Washington bureaucrats and a bloated system failing them academically.
—Christopher Tremoglie, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
Our unaccountable sheriffs are a headache for Californians in normal times.
—Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaccountable
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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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Added to the chaos is the underlying rudimentary calculation of tariff levels that have produced wildly uneven and irrational effects on trading partners with no readily discernible policy value.—
Jerrold Lundquist,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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The characters are believably upset and irrational for much of the play.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
2 Apr. 2025
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The choice to center a film that primarily exists as a primer on the Gospels for young viewers around the parenting struggles of a 19th century literary figure who is not exactly at the forefront of culture is inexplicable.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
11 Apr. 2025
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Doncic was traded seemingly at the peak of his career, which made the trade even more shocking and inexplicable.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Apr. 2025
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The words were harsh but the logic was not unreasonable.—
George Caulkin,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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This would not be an unreasonable proposition, considering the U.S. already pledged a security guarantee to Ukraine upon its return of all nuclear warheads to Russia by 1996, based on the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances.—
Seung-Whan Choi,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Unaccountable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaccountable. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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