What is "unaspiring"

Usage examples of "unaspiring".

He gave an evasive answer, emphasizing the immense responsibility that they were trying to put on him and his own unaspiring disposition.

And this capacity for humble unaspiring worship has its peculiar guerdon.

I suppose, looked on me as his posterity -- as someone who would continue his respectable, professionally competent, unaspiring life.

Sometimes in those mountaineering excursions with John to Zermatt, to Chamonix, to Grindelwald, I have found it in my heart to envy the unaspiring people who spend long days pottering about on level ground.

The youthful years of Shakespeare were spent under circumstances which might have produced in him one dull and unaspiring British country lout, like, as one egg to another, to a hundred thousand others who lived in his age.

His very fair intelligence was so indolently unaspiring, so intolerant of harness, as we may say, and so contentedly attuned to the general mind, mind of the multitude, that the idlest utterance falling on his ear from any merest unit of the common crowd was more to him than all the depths or heights of truth, order, or beauty that learning, training, or the least bit of consecutive reasoning could reveal.

They reached the Sophie, propelled Stephen and his belongings up the side - the larboard side, to avoid ceremony and to make sure they got him aboard: they had too low an opinion of landmen to allow him to venture upon even the Sophie's unaspiring height alone - and Jack led him to the cabin.