Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an unambitious manner; without ambition.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in an unambitious manner

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Examples

  • For unapologetically and unambitiously awful Protestant poetry, I direct you to James Augustus Page's Protestant Ballads.

    An excursion into Victorian Protestant poetry: "Heart of Oak" 2009

  • For unapologetically and unambitiously awful Protestant poetry, I direct you to James Augustus Page's Protestant Ballads.

    The Little Professor: 2009

  • In exchange for boxes of matches and bread-rolls they offered us artless and unpretentious embroideries: rags of canvas on which pink, crimson and green golliwogs with their arms projecting like twigs had been unambitiously stitched in thick wool, as though by three-year-old Miros.

    Archive 2006-05-01 2006

  • In exchange for boxes of matches and bread-rolls they offered us artless and unpretentious embroideries: rags of canvas on which pink, crimson and green golliwogs with their arms projecting like twigs had been unambitiously stitched in thick wool, as though by three-year-old Miros.

    Reading Leigh Fermor 2006

  • As for Grace, she began to feel troubled; she did not perhaps wish there and then to unambitiously devote her life to Giles Winterborne, but she was conscious of more and more uneasiness at the possibility of being the social hope of the family.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • In the summer there were always butterflies; fritillaries darting through; Red Admirals feasting and floating; cabbage whites, unambitiously fluttering round a bush, like muslin milkmaids, content to spend a life there.

    Between the Acts 2004

  • Hemingway says, it. s another book i can never write again. i want to write unambitiously and succeed someone elses unattained ambitions. i am heartless. i am clandestine. the piano has been drinking - tom waits but, this city hates me.

    anti-gens Diary Entry anti-gens 2003

  • Mrs. Fane became noted in her county for going with the most unflinching straightness, but so little did she care for the reputation, that sometimes she would stick unambitiously to the roads and never take a fence.

    Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

  • Mr. Reed's little book is so earnestly and unambitiously written, that its graphic power may escape notice.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

  • For as has been seen, at this period we were closely associated with the old magazine of the Golden West, that had cradled the first born of Bret Harte's genius; even I, urged on by my family, had dabbled sporadically and unambitiously at certain unimportant book reviewings.

    PROLOGUE AND A MEETING 1921

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