How to Use unaccountable in a Sentence

unaccountable

adjective
  • She has shown an unaccountable reluctance to accept their offer.
  • Yes, the virus seems unaccountable to our best efforts and fueled by our worst instincts.
    — Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Saudis seem to be adapting to the likelihood that one unaccountable man will rule them for decades to come.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • The third is simple, unaccountable luck.
    — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 11 May 2026
  • In other parts of the world, patience with unaccountable power may be growing thin.
    — Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 16 July 2024
  • We were founded in revolt against unaccountable power and wealth.
    — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Many have endured one-party or military rule, and know that unaccountable rulers abuse.
    — The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
  • These dissidents view the monarchy in its current form as opaque and unaccountable.
    — Tassanee Vejpongsa, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Its politicians are in a venal class of their own, more unaccountable than any others in the eurozone.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Congress should write the rules – not punt to unaccountable bureaucrats.
    — The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 28 June 2024
  • 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
  • Thus it was viewed as not only secretive but somewhat unaccountable for its actions.
    — Ron Insana, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Why should ruling the country in robes, unaccountable to anyone, be solely our province?
    — Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
  • In a free society, the people who enforce the law should never be faceless or unaccountable.
    — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • These politicians can’t make these decisions and be held unaccountable for people dying.
    — Katie Benner and Jennifer Medina, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • At what other moment in modern times has a single man wielded so much unaccountable power over such a large swath of the world economy?
    — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • But replacing it with a junta of unaccountable elites—the Putin model—is not an improvement.
    — Garry Kasparov, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Boo Irving’s smug, unaccountable butt so loudly that the parquet floor looks like its tectonic plates are shifting.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2021
  • And it is viewed by many as a powerful yet unaccountable organization that doesn’t reflect the needs or wants of all society.
    — Simon Constable, Fox News, 21 Jan. 2024
  • While our current board is a bit better about this, for most of the last four years, the majority on our school board has been unaccountable and unavailable to the public.
    — Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Right now, Medi-Cal is bloated, unaccountable and failing the people it’s supposed to serve.
    — Carl Demaio, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2025
  • This has been long overdue—the courts have, like Congress, been happy to pass the buck to unaccountable government bureaucrats.
    — WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The result was a fast, funny, pointed jab that made both Becerra and Porter look prickly and unaccountable.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • But this is not the case with ICE agents, who are completely unaccountable and totally out of control.
    — Dave Min, Oc Register, 17 July 2025
  • Some of the changes have resulted in less transparency and unaccountable shifts in scoring for many hospitals and specialties.
    — Brian Stein and Bala Hota, STAT, 24 Aug. 2023
  • 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

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