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Discover LudwigThe word "ambitionless" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that means a lack of ambition or drive. Example: His parents were disappointed to find out he was ambitionless and had no plans for the future.
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ambitionless
adjective
Without ambition or motivation
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Here it's the heroine who's the ambitionless slob, a grad-school dropout treading water as a waitress and living in a pigsty of an apartment.
My body, therefore, became the only visible trace of her dead son, which likely explained my physical cowardice — which I, of course, compensated for with a restless but, to be frank, ambitionless intelligence.
Folk wisdom suggests that the reason for this difference is cultural, which, depending on your perspective, means either that Europeans are ambitionless café-dwellers or that Americans are Puritan grinds with no taste for the finer things in life.
Like Jeff, the anonymous protagonist is a forty-ish, ambitionless journalist, unencumbered by family, with a pitch-perfect sense of humor and a penchant for word play.
Now he has ambitionless raps about huge ambitions too.
Such cultural comfort food comes with an acrid wave of reflux, though, because when movies like "Reality Bites" or even the sitcom "Friends" were new, I scorned them as cash-ins on the hype about adrift, ambitionless young people — cheap Hollywood holidays launched from my peer group's misery.
While faulting her mother's choices in men, Melissa made a troubling choice of her own with her ambitionless boyfriend.
A 12-point gap remains between themselves and Manchester City but, after a slow-burning start and despite missing several key performers, they imposed their quality and superiority over Sam Allardyce's ambitionless team.
Young women, and young men, I, too, was young – Believe that if you can! – but years go by Until, one day, you find your songs are sung; Ambitionless, your sap and tears run dry.
The title story of the collection describes a young man, frustrated, ambitionless, who wins a caged serval in a bet from a stranger at a bar.
Your novella "The Vanishing Point" tells the story of a well-intentioned carpenter, Guy, who takes pride in what he does but at the same time seems almost completely ambitionless.
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