unelected

From un- + elected.

unelected (comparative more unelected, superlative most unelected)

1. Not elected.
   • 2023 December 20, Marshall Cohen, “Fact check: Are Colorado Supreme Court justices ‘unelected,’ as GOP has claimed?”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “We need elections that we can trust, that we can believe in,” GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Tuesday at a campaign event in Mason City, Iowa. “That means yes, unelected judges are not going to decide willy-nilly across the state who ends up on a ballot and who doesn’t.”

• unelectedly
• unelectedness

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

unelected

1. simple past and past participle of unelect