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unaccountable

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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.

From Vox

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.

From Time

“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.

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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unaccountable, such as: arcane, impenetrable, inexplicable, unfathomable, unheard-of, and unintelligible.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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