ambitiously

From ambitious + -ly.

• (General American) IPA^(key): [ɛəːmˈbɪʃəs.li]

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ambitiously (comparative more ambitiously, superlative most ambitiously)

1. In an ambitious manner.
   • 1659, John Hales, Golden Remains of the Ever Memorable Mr. John Hales:

     by ambitiously heaping up the conceits and authorities of other men, increase much in the bulk, but do as much imbase in true value

   • 1956 December 19, Phyllis Battelle, “Poor Commuter's Life Not So Dreadful After All”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 11 May 2009:

     Many of New York's most celebrated personalities hitch-hiked here, or rode the rails from wherever it was that they spent their youth dreaming ambitiously.

   • 1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XIII, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I, page 239:

     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.