aspire
verb (used without object)
to long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, especially for something great or of high value (usually followed by to, after, or an infinitive).
Example Sentences
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Behind us not far was the view of Toledo, a low hump and a comparatively unaspiring tessellation of rooftops, seen from where El Greco did not see it that way.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020
Here the heir to Peter’s melancholy abeyance is Hassan, an unaspiring analyst from Karachi.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2018
As a reporter Lippmann is by self-concession unqualified and unaspiring, consistently ignores opportunities for scoops.
From Time Magazine Archive
And if your spirit wander near To kiss this plant of unaspiring art-- Translate it, even in the heavenly sphere, As the libretto of a maiden's heart.
From War Poetry of the South by Various
Participles, or participial adjectives, reversed in sense by the prefix un; as, unaspiring, unavailing, unbelieving, unbattered, uninjured, unbefriended.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
