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Meanings of ambitionless in English

Having little desire for success or achievement.

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      1
      Allardon Elessedil had been tentative, careful, and unambitious in his life's goals.
      Ilse Witch
      2
      She also said it was unambitious compared with Paris's much larger Vélib scheme.
      The Guardian
      3
      When I left school my parents were very unambitious for me.
      The Guardian
      4
      Would you work for an employer who would call you dependent, unambitious, lazy?
      The Irish Times
      5
      He had talents equal to the greatest achievements, but was indolent and unambitious.
      The Friendships of Women
      Usage of ambitionless in English
      1
      Her jewels are too precious to scatter before the idle, the ambitionless.
      Pushing to the Front
      2
      Lazy and ambitionless, they are incapable of uniting their tribal forces.
      The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
      3
      She will fall little by little until she degenerates into an ambitionless slattern.
      Pushing to the Front
      4
      Chipmunk infuriated many recently when he called the scene "wack and ambitionless".
      The Guardian
      5
      Yet, you must not accuse the rich of being ambitionless.
      Arms and the Woman
      6
      She was not so ambitionless as she had once seemed.
      The family: the secret fundamentalism at the heart of american p...
      7
      Mischief is sure to crop up, in one form or another, among the idle and ambitionless.
      Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society
      8
      Steve was a characteristic livyere, shiftless and ambitionless.
      The Lure of the Labrador Wild
      9
      I stood alone, ironical, ambitionless, still questioning the utility of human effort, yet determined to play the game of life to its bitter end.
      Simon the Jester
      Ambitionless through the time