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Meanings of ambitionless in English

Having little desire for success or achievement.

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Examples for "unambitious"
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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...
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Mischief is sure to crop up, in one form or another, among the idle and ambitionless.
Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society
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Steve was a characteristic livyere, shiftless and ambitionless.
The Lure of the Labrador Wild
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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