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Meanings of unambitious in English
Having little desire for success or achievement.
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Examples for "ambitionless"
Examples for "ambitionless"
1
Her jewels are too precious to scatter before the idle, the ambitionless.
2
Lazy and ambitionless, they are incapable of uniting their tribal forces.
3
She will fall little by little until she degenerates into an ambitionless slattern.
4
Chipmunk infuriated many recently when he called the scene "wack and ambitionless".
5
Yet, you must not accuse the rich of being ambitionless.
Usage of unambitious in English
1
Allardon Elessedil had been tentative, careful, and unambitious in his life's goals.
2
She also said it was unambitious compared with Paris's much larger Vélib scheme.
3
When I left school my parents were very unambitious for me.
4
Would you work for an employer who would call you dependent, unambitious, lazy?
5
He had talents equal to the greatest achievements, but was indolent and unambitious.
6
He is almost always careful, always unambitious, always in good taste.
7
What a pity he is just a trifle commonplace and unambitious.
8
Alexander Pope, the elder, was a man of philosophical desires and unambitious character.
9
For a young woman to dream of eating pickles, foretells an unambitious career.
10
The 1996 Cancer Strategy is, quite frankly, a lamentably unambitious document.
11
How peacefully moved on again the pure stream of Mrs. Markland's unambitious life!
12
We wish something as unambitious might be written for us when we die.
13
As to the adjectives, I said, if I remember right, amiable, unambitious, and absent-minded.
14
Its days of innocence had gone: it could never be an unambitious beast again.
15
The superintendent was ambitious and therefore pompous; he, himself, was unambitious and therefore modest.
16
His talent was well known out of Rosville; but he was unambitious and eccentric.
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