Noun : Too much ambition caused him to be disliked by his colleagues. ,The crown was his ambition. ,I awoke feeling tired and utterly lacking in ambition.    From Dictionary.com. 

I do ask you to believe that I have them, that they are real, and that my being what you termed ambitionless and a country loafer is not my condition from choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Roscoe Paine] Reference

She said she'd never marry anyone ambitionless as me.    From Wordnik.com.  [MARRIOTT, U.S.A.] Reference

And I hate the fact that they still think that I am an ambitionless moron.    From Wordnik.com.  [hamletwildie Diary Entry] Reference

Years in the factory had made them dead, listless, soulless and ambitionless creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

And so by the time Lincoln had a conscious view of his father, he may have seen him as somewhat ambitionless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America] Reference

Europe, and in this felicitous, ambitionless condition, they never urgently demanded education, even for their children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

The native is very slowly tempted to abandon the habits and traditional customs of his forefathers, and his ambitionless felicity may be envied by any true philosopher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

A cat's life can be rather ambitionless, chilled-out, aloof, unbothered -- a seemingly endless reverie with relatively few highs and lows -- but there comes a point when a cat must start sniffing out departure zones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Important topics discussed] Reference

Existence had settled back to an ambitionless normality.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Side of Paradise] Reference

He also agrees that he's not the same ambitionless guy she first met.    From Wordnik.com.  [BuddyTV] Reference

Her jewels are too precious to scatter before the idle, the ambitionless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushing to the Front] Reference

Lazy and ambitionless, they are incapable of uniting their tribal forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance] Reference

She will fall little by little until she degenerates into an ambitionless slattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushing to the Front] Reference

Her marriage to this easy-going, ambitionless, though generous prince had been a failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate] Reference

Dean is a house painter, ambitionless but reasonably content in his work, a volatile husband and a goofy but besotted father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

She was purposeless, ambitionless, except to lie and rest and seek for some resolution of peace out of the tangled web wherein her own willfulness had involved her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Success A Novel] Reference

Britain's broadband leaders: arrogant and ambitionless How is Britain going to get the next-generation broadband network it desperately needs to compete in the modern world?.    From Wordnik.com.  [PC PRO] Reference

Ultimately, if the idea of the TA exercising with the Regulars takes off, I foresee the TA being staffed with the unemployable and ambitionless - because they'll get no promotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

All the place has a hopeless, or at least ambitionless, air, though in this splendid climate poverty has less tinge of misery and the appearance of a greater contentment with its lot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond] Reference

As if it were not enough, -- had I been a fool, an ambitionless, soulless fool, - the mere thought that I had linked my name to that of a tradesman, -- I beg pardon, a retired tradesman!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference

Though a tireless worker, Lenhart is ambitionless and adrift, finding excitement only in the company of Chat Wethers, a fellow Dartmouth alum, and Kate Goodenow, their social circle's flighty lynchpin, with whom both boys nurse quiet infatuations.    From Wordnik.com.  [bookforum.com] Reference

In their haunts of crime the criminals live a lazy ambitionless life and regard work as an evil to be avoided; the reformatory system, however, captures his interest on behalf of industry by making his liberty depend upon his having reached the status of an honest and enthusiastic tradesman.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science] Reference

Slowly, yet surely, he ascends rung after rung, masters a trade in half the time required by his ambitionless brother-worker, and before a weaker vessel would have gotten his bearings as a mechanic, we find this prodigy mastering a profession -- and behold he has scaled the topmost rung of the ladder of fame!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dignity, Power and Responsibility of Organized Labor: Labor Day Address, Greensboro, N.C., September 4, 1905] Reference

Kwame recalled a few posts back a dear friend of his who wrote for herself without any ambition; while he expressed his respect for her practice, he couldn’t conceive for himself an ambitionless practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of History : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

And now, I've also become ambitionless.    From Wordnik.com.  [hamletwildie Diary Entry] Reference

He was ambitionless, made so by the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Veronica Lake Died Today] Reference

As modest merit, still ambitionless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference

And Dandy, that harmless, ambitionless rounder, dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grave Denied]