unambitious

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Unambitious parents had to watch their young to keep them from sneaking up telephone poles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unambitious at 64, Isaac Bacharach is rated by impartial observers thus: an Old Guardsman of the best school, a born behind-the-scenes fixer, "one of the dozen men who really count in the House."

From Time Magazine Archive

Unambitious of that distinction which only wealth bestows, they are content with an abundance for all their comforts, and for the comfort of those who, as friends or neighbors, come to share it with them.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry

Unambitious and passionately fond of his home, he was seldom away from it, and accordingly led an extremely quiet and uneventful life.

From Fifty years with the Revere Copper Co. A Paper Read at the Stockholders' Meeting held on Monday 24 March 1890 by Snow, S. T.

Unambitious of fame as a poet, though he frequently wrote verses, he never ventured on a publication.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles