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Recent Examples of unambitious
In some ways, Melania Trump—elegant, enigmatic, and apparently unambitious—arrived in Washington better suited to the office than any other presidential spouse in recent memory.
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Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024
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
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Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unambitious
Adjective
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Sixty-five-year-old Jep Gambardella, indolent and disenchanted, his eyes permanently imbued with gin and tonic, watches this parade of hollow, doomed, powerful yet depressed humanity.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
4 Aug. 2025
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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
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Soviet Russia, too, experienced periodic panics about slothful bureaucrats impeding the dictatorship of the proletariat.—
Charlie Tyson,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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Just as Let’s Start Here tapped the Yves Tumor and Caroline Polachek regulars Justin Raisen and Patrick Wimberly to steer its lysergic pop, Bad Cameo solicits heady, shiftless synthesizer compositions to showcase different dimensions in Lil Yachty’s voice.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
3 July 2024
Adjective
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Forest walks, lazy lake days, midday swims, and evening bonfires are a part of your regular day.—
Miles Walls,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Sep. 2025
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Camels seem slow, hippos clumsy, phoenixes unstable, lions lazy.—
Francois Botha,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Unambitious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unambitious. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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