unaccountable

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: The party constitution is rewritten to make the leadership more thoroughly unaccountable to party members.

Modifies a noun

• quango: The Forestry Commission controls vast tracts of hill land yet there is concern that it is an unaccountable quango.
• bureaucrat: Surrendering such sovereignty to un-elected and unaccountable bureaucrats in Brussels is not an option I could ever support.
• bureaucracy: It has highlighted the concern that many in EU countries feel about an unaccountable bureaucracy.
• elite: Hard to see or not, the fact of the matter is that an unaccountable financial elite has quietly seized power.
• institution: Thus what remains to be seen is whether agility can out-do the brute force of powerful unaccountable institutions.
• reason: For some unaccountable reason we all started to recite a few lines of poetry.

Modifying Another Word

• democratically: Both the parliament and executive contain Scots who are absolutely and totally democratically unaccountable to the people whose lives they blight.
• largely: However these men remained invisible and largely unaccountable for their behavior.
• totally: My intervention is totally unaccountable in the world of beetles.
• quite: A quite unaccountable tragedy left this fine gentleman bereft of his good humor.
• completely: Such people are completely unaccountable to the local people whom they are supposed to serve.
• too: We have a State that does too much, that interferes too much, that is too unaccountable.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: To one unacquainted with the character of the schooner, the proceedings of her crew must have seemed unaccountable as well as surprising.
• remain: At law, they remain substantially unaccountable to any other creditor for the way in which a company's assets are dealt with.
• become: The media, they think, have become unaccountable, over powerful and careless about accuracy.