unaccountable
adjective
impossible to account for; unexplained; inexplicable.
unaccountably
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a word derived from
unaccountable.
Example Sentences
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The sportswriters who selected the members of the Baseball Hall of Fame unaccountably shunned him too; Klein got less than 3% of the vote in 1948, his first year of eligibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
“Obsequious, oversized and unaccountably frightening” declared the Washington Post’s critic Sebastian Smee.
From Salon ● May 17, 2024
Paul Hoffman, 61, formerly a machinist at an injection molding company in Reed City, Michigan, began unaccountably losing his balance in the spring of 2020.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 21, 2024
To Warnock’s dismay, Acrobat was an unaccountably hard sell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
I didn’t want to be alone—quite the contrary—but I felt, unaccountably, a strong desire to be rid of them both.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
