underambitious

Definitions

Having too little ambition.

Examples

“A woman—or at least I thought so; she could have⟳ been a slightly underambitious transvestite—in a leather miniskirt and bustier top, and the sort⟳ of waist-length blond extensions designed for twirling around at the same time as the wearer's nipple tassels.”

“You risk⟳ your work⟳ being dismissed as underambitious and so failing to find⟳ out anything important.”

“He is underambitious in his characterization of morality, cashing out prescriptivity in terms of prevailing expectations rather than objective authority, settling for an account of a sense⟳ of obligations rather than obligations themselves, and for empathetic behavior rather than empathetic motivations.”

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