unaccountable
adjective
un·ac·count·able
ˌən-ə-ˈkau̇n-tə-bəl 
1
: not to be accounted for : inexplicable, strange
2
: not to be called to account : not responsible
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She has shown an unaccountable reluctance to accept their offer.
the decorator's client has an unaccountable dislike for that color
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Henry Leutwyler Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 20 May 2025
Now, Trump says those labor rights Congress established in 1978 make federal workers unaccountable.
—Andrea Hsu, NPR, 11 May 2025
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Henry Leutwyler Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 20 May 2025
Now, Trump says those labor rights Congress established in 1978 make federal workers unaccountable.
—Andrea Hsu, NPR, 11 May 2025
An unelected, unaccountable private citizen had unilaterally thwarted a military operation in an active war zone while exposing the fact that governments had remarkably little control over crucial decisions affecting their citizens and national security.
—Ian Bremmer, Foreign Affairs, 13 May 2025
MACs serve as an unaccountable middleman between patients and doctors, driving up costs and worsening patient outcomes.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
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unaccountable
adjective
un·ac·count·able
ˌən-ə-ˈkau̇nt-ə-bəl
1
2
: not to be called to account : not responsible
unaccountably
adverb
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