The Idiot vocabulary

Gania frowned upon the idea. He thought it infra dig, and did not quite like appearing in society afterwards— that society in which he had been accustomed to pose up to now as a young man of rather brilliant prospects.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot (1887)

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Fitch: Gods! what a steep declivity! Below

I see the lazy dump-carts come and go,

Creeping like beetles and about as big.

The delving Paddies—

Pickering: Case of infra dig.