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Meanings of unambitious in English

Having little desire for success or achievement.

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Usage of unambitious in English
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Allardon Elessedil had been tentative, careful, and unambitious in his life's goals.
Ilse Witch
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She also said it was unambitious compared with Paris's much larger Vélib scheme.
The Guardian
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When I left school my parents were very unambitious for me.
The Guardian
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Would you work for an employer who would call you dependent, unambitious, lazy?
The Irish Times
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He had talents equal to the greatest achievements, but was indolent and unambitious.
The Friendships of Women
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He is almost always careful, always unambitious, always in good taste.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 / A Magazine ...
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What a pity he is just a trifle commonplace and unambitious.
The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
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Alexander Pope, the elder, was a man of philosophical desires and unambitious character.
Biographical Essays
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For a young woman to dream of eating pickles, foretells an unambitious career.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien...
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The 1996 Cancer Strategy is, quite frankly, a lamentably unambitious document.
The Irish Times
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How peacefully moved on again the pure stream of Mrs. Markland's unambitious life!
The Good Time Coming
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We wish something as unambitious might be written for us when we die.
The new yorker
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As to the adjectives, I said, if I remember right, amiable, unambitious, and absent-minded.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
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Its days of innocence had gone: it could never be an unambitious beast again.
Complete Books of Blood
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The superintendent was ambitious and therefore pompous; he, himself, was unambitious and therefore modest.
The Ghost Ship
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His talent was well known out of Rosville; but he was unambitious and eccentric.
The Morgesons: A Novel
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