It is best to start slowly and unambitiously at first.

He played carefully and unambitiously, exchanging one piece after another.

I drove slowly and unambitiously and the Brooklands responding with smoothness and quiet to rival the best, all the time asking so little of the driver that it was positively soporific.

The road to the lake was deep in scrub oak and hazel-nut and sumac; flies gyrated in a backward dream of summer; and the aged Pridmore horse moved unambitiously.

For one example, in the final round of the Monte Carlo Tournament in 1968, he needed a victory to share first prize with Bent Larsen but drew unambitiously and let Larsen win the tourney that day without having to do anything for it.