infra dig

Definitions

Beneath one's dignity.

colloquial

Examples

“It would be regarded as infra dig⟳., I am told, for an American professor of English to concern⟳ himself too actively with the English spoken by nearly a hundred millions of his countrymen.”

“Gradually the hoop fell out of favour. Possibly with the increase⟳ in traffic, it was no longer safe to bowl one's hoop over the pavement and it had to be taken into the park⟳. Perhaps it was the coming of the scooter which made it infra dig⟳. to carry⟳ a hoop.”

“I'm a communicator, not a doer. Anyway, isn't it infra dig⟳ for a westerner to actually do anything these days?”

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