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unaccountable

/uhn-uh-koun-tuh-buhl/US // ˌʌn əˈkaʊn tə bəl //UK // (ˌʌnəˈkaʊntəbəl) //

不负责任的,不负责任,不负责任的人,不负责

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : impossible to account for; unexplained; inexplicable: The boat has an unaccountable tendency to yaw.
    • : exempt from being called to account; not answerable: As a subordinate, he is unaccountable for errors in policy.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.not explainable; mysterious

Examples

  • Conservatives, meanwhile, say they fear he will steer the bureau toward becoming an unaccountable regulatory body with an anti-business agenda.

  • The harsh political reality is the Sheriff of Jefferson Parish is wholly unaccountable to the people.

  • So the evidence doesn’t indicate that America should continue the punitive, unaccountable model of policing that’s dominated over the past few decades.

  • Other experts in philanthropy have questioned the wisdom and utility of operating at the scale of the largest foundations but being as unreachable, and thus unaccountable, as a private individual.

  • “Maryland is ineffectively administering vaccines in an unaccountable manner,” Ferguson said during a virtual news conference.

  • And the new channels tend to be underground, indirect, and unaccountable.

  • And then cue the 501(c)(4) nonprofits, which are also unaccountable and almost totally opaque, as conduits for secret giving.

  • With the full force of law at their back, they are very nearly unaccountable in office, free to pursue what they think is right.

  • Eleven unaccountable federal judges cannot make these monumental decisions in secret ex parte proceedings.

  • Netanyahu and Lieberman believe they are unaccountable because they have never been called to account.

  • Yet, try as I would to strangle the idea, all through the evening the same horrible, unaccountable notion clung to me.

  • Perhaps the interval had been longer than he guessed, but, in any case, the change was swift and half unaccountable.

  • I am no longer a boy, and I do not take to people easily; but I felt an unaccountable interest in you.

  • What to me is unaccountable, is that there should always be as many fools as gamblers want, to make a living by them.

  • Jane had the sense of being led towards some unaccountable triumph and acclamation.