unambitious

/ (ˌʌnæmˈbɪʃəs) /

adjective

lacking in ambition: they were unambitious for their daughters

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How to use unambitious in a sentence

For a man who invests in cures for aging, his answer was surprisingly unambitious.
Peter Thiel’s Radical Political Vision | Gregory Ferenstein | October 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Not unambitious for a country deeper in debt than the United States.
From the River (In)to the Sea | Elisheva Goldberg | June 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Measured by our modern scale of pleasures he led a very inglorious, unambitious, and rude life.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume V | John Lord
He is a just, unambitious, intelligent man, in whom after a while the country would come to have implicit confidence.
The Prime Minister | Anthony Trollope
I found the place quite in keeping with the majority of French villages along the Detroit River—unambitious and lifeless.
Ocean to Ocean on Horseback | Willard Glazier

The elder brother felt almost sick with disgust at that unambitious reply, and said that he felt so.
Belford's Magazine, Vol. II, No. 3, February 1889 | Various
Yet he did not repine—there was still more than enough of an unambitious sort to tax all his energies and occupy all his hours.
Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy

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