Example Sentences

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Jason Bateman stars as Conrad Valmont, an ambitionless hotel heir who has been reared by the housekeeping staff in a cushy suite.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2014

While faulting her mother’s choices in men, Melissa made a troubling choice of her own with her ambitionless boyfriend.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2012

Now he has ambitionless raps about huge ambitions too.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2012

He's a shuffling, ambitionless shell of a man, ground down by the unstoppable tedium of everyday life to the point where he can barely even rouse the energy to think for himself.

From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2010

She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace, realizing contentedly that we were unwanted, that striving was meaningless.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole