beneath one's dignity

“It means ‘to do something that one considers beneath one’s dignity.’”

Ind. Ter. Indian Territory. inf., infra=Below; Infantry; Infinitive. infra dig., infra dignitatem=Beneath one's dignity. init., initio=In the beginning. in lim., in limine=On the threshold, at the outset. in loc., in loco=In its place;—in loc. cit., in loco citato =In the place cited. in pr., in principio=In the beginning.

To hurt an Archibald was a trifle beneath one's dignity.

Ah, you laugh," said he, "and in your human conceit you find it quite beneath one's dignity to occupy one's self with dogs, when there are so many human beings.

"No," said the Marquis, "the thing is beneath one's dignity, it seems to me."