How to Use unambitious in a Sentence

unambitious

adjective

• Enter the unambitious nephew (Kais Nashif) of one of the show’s producers.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 17 July 2019
• Critics to the left of Trudeau say both leaders have unambitious plans that are scant on details.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2019
• The game does so little to change or progress the logic of the Half-Life series that, if such a thing had been done before in VR, it would be called unambitious.
  — Julie Muncy, Wired, 25 Mar. 2020
• Bill Murray and Harold Ramis star as two unambitious friends who join the Army and find themselves in a platoon of misfits.
  — Amy Mitchell, Country Living, 3 June 2022
• Why Ford’s guidance for 2020 is so unambitious is less clear.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
• Yes, Hayes plays a woman — a deeply unambitious woman in a small Wisconsin town who doesn’t know what to do with her life.
  — Jason Sheeler, PEOPLE.com, 10 Apr. 2020
• The script is laughably unambitious, meaning Good Times is a movie about Sonny and Cher deciding whether or not to make a movie.
  — Elle Carroll, Vulture, 20 May 2021
• It cannot be said that Ken Burns is an unambitious filmmaker.
  — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• There is a core of a perfectly reasonable, if unambitious idea: to build databases and simulations of parts of the brain.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2014
• Belichick has been careful to give Jones a fairly unambitious menu.
  — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2021
• For starters, as the BofA table shows, the migration pattern looks to be fairly unambitious.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2020
• The outline of a new GroKo deal was relatively unambitious.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• Super Monkey Ball is deeply unambitious in the best way possible.
  — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2021
• In terms of its design and the quality of materials used, the Mirage G4’s cabin is unambitious.
  — Warren Clarke, Car and Driver, 21 Dec. 2022
• But the package wending its way through the legislative system is laughably unambitious.
  — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2019
• Though initially jealous, Matt soon realizes that this unambitious ne’er-do-well who can’t even find a girlfriend is no rival.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2019
• Had the target been reached easily is would surely have been criticised as unambitious.
  — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
• Critics say the 2020 benchmarks were relatively unambitious goals that new state regulations helped the city meet.
  — David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 June 2017
• Despite being unambitious in scope, the program seems to have had considerable success.
  — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 11 June 2019
• Tiger and Wolf soon discover that Future Man's gaming skills have zero real-world value and that lazy, unambitious gamers don't actually make good soldiers.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2018
• Not meeting these targets and setting unambitious goals for lowering emissions have cost the economy a potential NIS 217 billion, the report said.
  — Shoshanna Solomon, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2021
• The Russian government, which has been criticized for setting unambitious climate targets, signed off on the region’s net-zero road map in January.
  — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2021
• The 20-year lag behind other powerful nations’ targets may make India’s goal seem unambitious.
  — Ciara Nugent, Time, 1 Nov. 2021
• Ultron is surprisingly unambitious in this universe, begging the question of who created him and whose brain patterns his mind is modeled after.
  — Richard Newby, Vulture, 6 May 2022
• Micah Mortimer is quiet, unambitious and orderly, the type of man who designates one evening for cleaning the countertops, another for doing the laundry.
  — Cressida Connolly, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
• This story is common in many societies: the gifted wife’s career exceeds that of her unambitious husband, and marital discord follows.
  — Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• The postseason was a different story, with the Dodgers’ annual shortcomings in the fall increasingly blamed on their unambitious moves the previous winter.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• This trait would contrast more than any policy with Mrs Merkel’s unambitious, sleepy administration.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• With such a hopeless and unambitious vision for life post-inoculation, why should an already nervous group be eager to get vaccinated?
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 15 Mar. 2021
• The third-act revelation that Peter was an unspectacular boyfriend comes as no surprise, and addresses one of the burning questions raised in so many other lesser films: Why do women stick around for these unambitious, boring dudes?
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 11 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024