unelected

[uhn-i-lek-tid]

adjective

1. not elected; appointed or hired rather than chosen by vote.

Example Sentences

But as his influence grew, so did public resentment of the power this unelected official held.

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“It is a kangaroo tribunal, presided over by an unelected government, whose purpose is to deliver a preordained guilty verdict and to discredit a political opponent,” she said.

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Like previous powerful, but unelected, advisers in Downing Street, such as Dominic Cummings or Alastair Campbell, he has been the target of negative stories.

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Yet no one suggested that unelected bureaucrats be given power over the people’s elected representatives to determine taxpayer spending.

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It was a maxim from an unelected presidential advisor who is already unleashing the federal government in unprecedented ways, overseeing the federalization of police forces and a sweeping deportation campaign challenging basic tenets of civil liberty.

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