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Recent Examples of unambitious
But although the play’s scenario certainly sets them up for banter, the dialogue itself is bizarrely unambitious and often illogical.
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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
Still, when an apparently innocent citizen like Nichols is tortured and executed by armed agents of the state, reform seems not only unambitious but inadequate.
—Paul Butler, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
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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
Still, when an apparently innocent citizen like Nichols is tortured and executed by armed agents of the state, reform seems not only unambitious but inadequate.
—Paul Butler, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unambitious
Adjective
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Screening disproportionately detects indolent tumors—those less likely to be lethal in the first place.—
Siddhartha Mukherjee,
New Yorker,
16 June 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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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
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By the end of the summer, there will be another pool with a zero-entry layout, lazy river, and seven private cabanas.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
11 July 2025
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The cellphone chimed, a surprise on a hot, lazy Sunday evening when few emails announce themselves.—
Scott Craven,
AZCentral.com,
10 July 2025
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“Unambitious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unambitious. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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