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unreviewable

unreviewable adjective: not able to be reviewed, or not subject to review.

Adjective

unreviewable (not comparable)

  1. Not able to be reviewed, or not subject to review
    • As we emerge from eight years of extravagant executive claims of unreviewable authority, Congress should be especially scrupulous about having a solid legal basis for controversial actions.2009 January 7, Walter Dellinger, “City of Cold Shoulders”, in New York Times
    • And then there are the catch-all provisions: rules that allow police to stop drivers for conduct that complies with all the rules on the books, but that officers consider "imprudent" or "unreasonable" under the circumstances, or that describe the offense in language so broad as to make a vioation...2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers

Origin of unreviewable

From un- + review + -able.

Questions about unreviewable

What does unreviewable mean?
Unreviewable means not able to be reviewed, or not subject to review.
What part of speech is unreviewable?
Unreviewable is an adjective.

Words near unreviewable in the dictionary

  1. unrevertible
  2. unreverting
  3. unrevested
  4. unrevetted
  5. unreviewability
  6. unreviewable
  7. unreviewed
  8. unreviled
  9. unreviling
  10. unrevisable
  11. unrevised

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