unaccountably
adverb
un·ac·count·ably
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Definition of unaccountably
1
: in an unaccountable manner
looking unaccountably upset heat was unaccountably disappearing
2
: for reasons that are hard to understand
unaccountably, he stayed right there
Examples of unaccountably in a Sentence
She was looking unaccountably upset.
Unaccountably, the problem was ignored.
Recent Examples on the Web
This guy can’t decide whether to be interesting or not—like someone who is mostly late but every once in a while, unaccountably, on time. — Leslie Jamison, Harper's magazine, "Baggage Claims," 19 Aug. 2019 Billy Rancher was many things: charming, funny, at times unaccountably distant. — oregonlive.com, "Billy Rancher and the Unreal Gods, ‘kings of downtown Portland,’ streaked toward 1980s rock stardom -- until tragedy struck," 8 Aug. 2019 Screening-room attendees who scoffed at Ma’s illogic (her house unaccountably filled with spooky African masks) had already fallen for the absurdities of Us and Get Out. — Armond White, National Review, "Ma’s Black-Mammy Stereotypes Capture the Illiberal Spirit," 7 June 2019 That tube eventually comes in three sizes: large, extra-large and extra-extra-large; the first run, in small, medium and large, unaccountably saw some astronauts fitted with the wrong size. — Oliver Morton, WIRED, "The Beauty and Madness of Sending a Man to the Moon," 4 June 2019 Extreme thrift—soon to be an Olympic sport!—has proven almost unaccountably rewarding. — Redbook, "3 Women Who've Learned to Be Happy Living on Less Money," 24 Nov. 2011 After a few unpleasant incidents — a few years ago, for instance, someone unaccountably stole the F1, F2, F3 and Y keys — there was talk about moving the monument to a different city. — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, "Move Over, Lenin: Make Room for the Computer Keyboard," 3 July 2018 Superheroes are always unaccountably dodging bullets and getting to the bomb in the nick of time; the greatest superpower of all is being the protagonist and having the writers on your side. — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, "The best superhero stories admit that superheroes are ridiculous," 11 July 2018 But when Lehman Brothers, a firm about 50% larger than Bear, began to totter six months later, the Treasury unaccountably reversed its policy. — Peter J. Wallison, WSJ, "The Treasury Still Needs to Bid Adios to OLA," 4 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unaccountably.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for unaccountably
unaccountably
adverb
English Language Learners Definition of unaccountably
formal
: in a way that is difficult to explain or understand : for reasons that are hard to understand
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