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Ambitiously

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am·bi·tious  (m-bshs)
adj.
1. Full of, characterized by, or motivated by ambition.
2. Greatly desirous; eager: "I am not ambitious of ridicule" Edmund Burke.
3. Requiring or showing much effort; challenging: an ambitious schedule.
am·bitious·ly adv.
am·bitious·ness n.
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Adv.1.ambitiously - with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner; "she pursued her goals ambitiously"
determinedly
unambitiously - in an unambitious manner; "he does his job, but he works unambitiously"
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"Love never made a law so cruel, a law that would rob true lovers of each other's society for a whole month in a year, stretching them on the rack of absence--" There my period broke down, so I began another less ambitiously planned.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.
Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context
The torn ear had been pierced again, but this time not so ambitiously, for the hole accommodated no more than a short clay pipe.
Adventure by London, Jack View in context
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