infra dig
English
editEtymology
editShortened form of Latin infrā dignitātem (“beneath [one's] dignity”).
Adjective
editinfra dig
- (colloquial) Beneaty one's dignity.
- Synonym: infra dignitatem
- 1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC, Preface to the Second Edition:
- 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.