unambitious

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Recent Examples of unambitious Recycling visuals from a five-year-old game and the basic formula of dozens more, Echoes of Wisdom is wholly unambitious and sadly forgettable. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024 But although the play’s scenario certainly sets them up for banter, the dialogue itself is bizarrely unambitious and often illogical. Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024 That unambitious goal has already been met for the last 52 years. Amaka Anku, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2022 Thus far, the world has mostly failed to meet even relatively unambitious climate goals. David Owen, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unambitious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unambitious
Adjective
  • Screening disproportionately detects indolent tumors—those less likely to be lethal in the first place.
    Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • Her tumor appears ominous but is, by nature, indolent—slow-growing, noninvasive, never destined to threaten her life.
    Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Soviet Russia, too, experienced periodic panics about slothful bureaucrats impeding the dictatorship of the proletariat.
    Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
  • At our test track, the buzzy little SUV needed a slothful 9.2 seconds to hit 60 mph.
    Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 23 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • 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
  • Expectations of real gains in livelihoods among China’s large, increasingly shiftless rural population will be much harder to fulfill in an era of slower growth.
    Scott Rozelle and Matthew Boswell, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2022
Adjective
  • It's adorned as a melting ski resort, featuring cool slides, a lazy river, and a wave pool.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 23 July 2025
  • Babitz is often contrasted with her frenemy Joan Didion—Babitz was cast in the popular imagination as the fun, ditzy sexpot, as opposed to Didion’s cool, cold-blooded stenographer—but the maturity and thoughtfulness of these stories dispel any lazy stereotypes.
    The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 23 July 2025

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“Unambitious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unambitious. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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