ambitiously

[æmˈbɪʃəslɪ] ADV → ambiciosamente
a book ambitiously titled → un libro con el ambicioso título de ...
next Keith will ambitiously attempt to name all Shakespeare's plays in two minutes → ahora Keith llevará a cabo su ambicioso intento de nombrar todas las obras de Shakespeare en dos minutos
he decided, perhaps rather ambitiously, to build the extension himself → decidió, quizás sobrevalorando sus posibilidades or intentando abarcar demasiado, construir la extensión él mismo
he had ambitiously hoped to finish the job in a month → había esperado poder terminar el trabajo en un mes, lo que era mucho esperar

ambitiously

[æmˈbɪʃəsli] adv [attempt, promise, plan] → ambitieusement

ambitiously

adv → voll(er) Ehrgeiz, ehrgeizig; rather ambitiously, we set out to prove the following → wir hatten uns das ehrgeizige Ziel gesteckt, das Folgende zu beweisen

ambitiously

[æmˈbɪʃəslɪ] adv → ambiziosamente

ambition

(ӕmˈbiʃən) noun

1. the desire for success, fame, power etc. He is full of ambition and energy.

2. the desire eventually to become or do something special. His ambition is to be Prime Minister.

amˈbitious adjective

He is very ambitious; That plan is too ambitious.

amˈbitiously adverb

amˈbitiousness noun

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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.

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A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.

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The torn ear had been pierced again, but this time not so ambitiously, for the hole accommodated no more than a short clay pipe.

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The life that was in me was constituted to do what my father did, and it whispered to me secretly and ambitiously of aerial paths and forest flights.

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They even planned ambitiously some day when they were disgracefully prosperous, to ride all the way up to Daylight's boyhood home in Eastern Oregon, stopping on the way at Dede's girlhood home in Siskiyou.

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I now look back upon my aspiring thoughts," he said, "and think myself more happy than if I had attained what I so ambitiously thirsted for.

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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.

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It was he who snarled warningly at the younger members of the pack or slashed at them with his fangs when they ambitiously tried to pass him.

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Hawley's disgust at the notion of the "Pioneer" being edited by an emissary, and of Brooke becoming actively political-- as if a tortoise of desultory pursuits should protrude its small head ambitiously and become rampant--was hardly equal to the annoyance felt by some members of Mr.

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A little over a year after Seoul Metro ambitiously rolled out smartphone battery dispensers at 152 stations, the plan has been scrapped.

Seoul Metro's mobile battery biz dies after a year

Important progress has been made to lay the foundation for inclusive and ambitiously structured defence cooperation (PESCO), and work is continuing to highlight this broad view of security.

Sweden : A secure EU in a secure world

Plus it's a vehicle survival challenge, where too much pedal power too soon (or too late) could see you, your cargo and the crane you ambitiously bolted to your trailer, slip inexorably under 10ft of murk.

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