How to Use unambitious in a Sentence

unambitious

adjective
  • Critics to the left of Trudeau say both leaders have unambitious plans that are scant on details.
    — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2019
  • It cannot be said that Ken Burns is an unambitious filmmaker.
    — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Belichick has been careful to give Jones a fairly unambitious menu.
    — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Why Ford’s guidance for 2020 is so unambitious is less clear.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Enter the unambitious nephew (Kais Nashif) of one of the show’s producers.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 17 July 2019
  • Had the target been reached easily is would surely have been criticised as unambitious.
    — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • But the package wending its way through the legislative system is laughably unambitious.
    — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Super Monkey Ball is deeply unambitious in the best way possible.
    — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Despite being unambitious in scope, the program seems to have had considerable success.
    — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 11 June 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
  • For starters, as the BofA table shows, the migration pattern looks to be fairly unambitious.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 14 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Its goal of reaching a 20% ratio seems pretty unambitious compared with its historical levels.
    — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
  • This trait would contrast more than any policy with Mrs Merkel’s unambitious, sleepy administration.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • This has encouraged a type of blinkered and oftentimes unambitious style of activism among young people, which asks for many changes but does not challenge the system that provides them with their own lofty status.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The 20-year lag behind other powerful nations’ targets may make India’s goal seem unambitious.
    — Ciara Nugent, Time, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Has this embarrassment of visual riches guaranteed that any story told on a smaller canvas is doomed to feel unambitious in comparison?
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Despite that, after five years stuck in development, there was every chance Pragmata would feel bland, outdated, or unambitious.
    — Echo Apsey, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Critics say the 2020 benchmarks were relatively unambitious goals that new state regulations helped the city meet.
    — David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 June 2017
  • Critics, including former ministers, have accused Starmer of being slow to push through reforms and unambitious with his agenda for power.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 14 May 2026
  • 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
  • Leaders can ultimately settle for an unambitious agreement that does not push the major emitters outside their comfort zone and leaves vulnerable nations largely on their own.
    — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Executives are resisting the notion young digital natives are unambitious and too demanding in the workplace.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • But asked about the prospect of working on bigger American movies, the German actress remains grounded, and surprisingly unambitious.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023

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