He does his job, but he works unambitiously. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : ambitious students. ,an ambitious attempt to break the record. ,ambitious of love and approval. ,an ambitious program for eliminating all slums. From Dictionary.com.
Mr. Reed's little book is so earnestly and unambitiously written, that its graphic power may escape notice. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
For unapologetically and unambitiously awful Protestant poetry, I direct you to James Augustus Page's Protestant Ballads. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
Mrs. Fane became noted in her county for going with the most unflinching straightness, but so little did she care for the reputation, that sometimes she would stick unambitiously to the roads and never take a fence. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
Hemingway says, it. s another book i can never write again. i want to write unambitiously and succeed someone elses unattained ambitions. i am heartless. i am clandestine. the piano has been drinking - tom waits but, this city hates me. From Wordnik.com. [anti-gens Diary Entry] Reference
In exchange for boxes of matches and bread-rolls they offered us artless and unpretentious embroideries: rags of canvas on which pink, crimson and green golliwogs with their arms projecting like twigs had been unambitiously stitched in thick wool, as though by three-year-old Miros. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
Travelex £10 Season, using a composite text more or less uncut, or else seek out slow and unambitiously priced amateur dramatics. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Blogs] Reference
He took what fell in his way -- magistracies, bank directorships, or what else, and lived unambitiously on his moderate but sufficient means, always in the front social position, and, of course, in universal respect. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria] Reference
I have a couple of very close friends that I see regularly, but part of the process of getting used to living alone and being happily (and unambitiously) single has been in finding the joy in the casual relationships in my life. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
As for Grace, she began to feel troubled; she did not perhaps wish there and then to unambitiously devote her life to Giles Winterborne, but she was conscious of more and more uneasiness at the possibility of being the social hope of the family. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
As a city, we should not forget George Woodcock and we should not forget the stories that have been recorded by our writers over these years since he first came to this "terminal city" that was dubbed rather unambitiously, the Liverpool of the West. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgia Straight - News And Views] Reference
For as has been seen, at this period we were closely associated with the old magazine of the Golden West, that had cradled the first born of Bret Harte's genius; even I, urged on by my family, had dabbled sporadically and unambitiously at certain unimportant book reviewings. From Wordnik.com. [PROLOGUE AND A MEETING] Reference
Olivier Dalibard had accompanied the marquis and his family in one of the frequent visits they paid to Laughton; and when the marquis finally quitted England, and fixed his refuge at Vienna, with some connections of his wife's, he felt a lively satisfaction at the thought of leaving his friend honourably, if unambitiously, provided for as secretary and librarian to Sir Miles St. John. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia — Complete] Reference
Caius Gracchus, at first, either for fear of his brother’s enemies, or designing to render them more odious to the people, absented himself from the public assemblies, and lived quietly in his own house, as if he were not only reduced for the present to live unambitiously, but was disposed in general to pass his life in inaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
Liverpool does not remind him of this so much as the good and true Baedeker professes, in the dockside run on the overhead railway (as the place unambitiously calls its elevated road); but then, as I noted in my account of Southampton, docks have a fancy of taking themselves in, and eluding the tourist eye, and even when they "flank the Mersey for a distance of 6-7 M." they do not respond to American curiosity so frankly as could be wished. From Wordnik.com. [Seven English Cities] Reference
But for the humor that peeped out occasionally in Miss Sunderland, to an ordinary observer her character -- as she moved unambitiously through the wards, doing always the right thing at the right time, unexpectant of blame and regardless of praise, obeying directions apparently to the very letter, yet never allowing the mistakes or carelessness of the director to mar her own work -- would have seemed almost colorless; but I have never considered myself an ordinary observer where character is concerned, and I soon saw that hers was not the unreasoning goodness of instinct, that it derived life and tone from a past full of culture and discipline. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
His name, and unambitiously relates. From Wordnik.com. [THE EXCURSION BOOK SEVENTH] Reference
Hemingway says, it. s another book i can never write again. i want to write unambitiously and succeed someone else. s unattained ambitions. i am heartless. i am clandestine. but a girl only get. s one pair of hips. and writer. s have rhythm. but, this city hates me. From Wordnik.com. [anti-gens Diary Entry] Reference
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