ambitionless

Definition of ambitionlessnext

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ambitionless
Adjective
  • Why This Happens To The Best Business Owners The trap does not catch the lazy or the careless.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • This cannot happen if lazy tropes around risk and governance continue to overshadow the ingenuity already present on the continent.
    Jeremy Ebobisse, Time, 26 June 2026
Adjective
  • Why didn’t Tania just get one of her fellow Council wokesters to hire her shiftless, entitled kin?
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The film, like How to Train Your Dragon, is about a shiftless youngster (Lilo, a Hawaiian girl who has been acting out since the death of her parents) bonding with a fantasy creature (Stitch, a blue alien experiment designed as a weapon of destruction).
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • Fans grumbled and became apathetic.
    Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 14 June 2026
  • Pastors, politicians and activists came together on Saturday with the goal of energizing apathetic Kansas City voters ahead of the primary election at the 19th annual Urban Summit.
    Freddrell Green, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2026
Adjective
  • Treatment for indolent systemic mastocytosis (ISM) largely focuses on preventing and controlling specific symptoms and anaphylaxis.
    Ruth Jessen Hickman, Health, 12 June 2026
  • No, rest is for the lazy, the Caucasian adolescent, the indolent, the indulgent—until the age of thirty.
    Taiye Selasi, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
Adjective
  • The length exacerbates all the rest of the series' sins, including a lack of emotional depth, gratuitous suffering and violence, long stretches of boring, listless plotting and extraneous characters.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 4 June 2026
  • Instead of the fantastical, even beautiful diaper sculptures, we were served the waste products of listless consumption.
    Theo Belci, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Adjective
  • Adorned with almost graphically violent labels showcasing alpha predators -- a shark, a grizzly, an orca, a lion and some sort of particularly angry bird of prey -- the bottles are a far cry from the placid villas and languorous ladies plastered across so many wines.
    ABC News, ABC News, 22 June 2026
  • Their first statement signing to launch the project was the €42m purchase of the lanky and languorous Argentine playmaker.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 2 June 2026
Adjective
  • Wasn’t Messi just standing over there a few seconds earlier, looking downright lethargic?
    Filip Bondy, New York Daily News, 22 June 2026
  • But Beijing has continued promoting key industrial sectors, and with domestic demand still lethargic, Chinese companies have shipped excess supply overseas, often undercutting local producers.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 20 June 2026
Adjective
  • That way for Prosecco would involve creating the bubbles by conducting the second fermentation in an inert stainless-steel tank and releasing it to market much sooner than Champagne.
    Cathrine Todd, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • If true, the role of the 1960s hard-selling ‘rabbis’ would seem anachronistic – until the next iteration of studio management turns out to be as inert as its predecessors.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 25 June 2026
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“Ambitionless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambitionless. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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