| \IN-fruh DIG\ | adjective
1. beneath one's dignity.
| | Quotes | … the man among the holly-bushes had made her see it all so plainly: the ridiculousness of being in love, the infra dig business of chasing a man or being chased by a man. "Is love really so absurd and infra dig?" she said aloud to herself. "Why of course!" came a deep, laughing voice.
-- D. H. Lawrence, "The Last Laugh," The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories, 1928 | | | | | | | | | | Origin of infra dig | | Infra dig is a shortening of the Latin phrase infrā dignitātem, "beneath (one's) dignity." It entered English in the early 1800s. | |
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