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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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.ambitiously - with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner; "she pursued her goals ambitiously"
unambitiously - in an unambitious manner; "he does his job, but he works unambitiously"
Translations
ambitiously [æmˈbɪʃəslɪ] ADVambiciosamente
a book ambitiously titledun libro con el ambicioso título de ...
next Keith will ambitiously attempt to name all Shakespeare's plays in two minutesahora 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 himselfdecidió, quizás sobrevalorando sus posibilidades or intentando abarcar demasiado, construir la extensión él mismo
he had ambitiously hoped to finish the job in a monthhabía esperado poder terminar el trabajo en un mes, lo que era mucho esperar
ambitiously [æmˈbɪʃəsli] adv [attempt, promise, plan] → ambitieusement
ambitiously
advvoll(er) Ehrgeiz, ehrgeizig; rather ambitiously, we set out to prove the followingwir hatten uns das ehrgeizige Ziel gesteckt, das Folgende zu beweisen
ambitiously [æmˈbɪʃəslɪ] advambiziosamente


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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 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.
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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