Sentence examples for it were beneath from inspiring English sources

Cain is often quite clear about how it works: "He had been born to a way of life that included taste, manners, and a jaunty aloofness from money, as though it were beneath a gentleman's notice.

Connie Mack, the imperial manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, recalled that when he started as a player, in the eighteen-eighties, "the game was thought, by solid, respectable people, to be only one degree above grand larceny, arson and mayhem, and those who engaged in it were beneath the notice of decent society".

I believe that I proposed this so that I could hold it against her when she inevitably turned it down, treating it as if it were beneath her, which I knew she would do, and I knew that it would make me furious when she did this, and I entrapped her anyway.

"It's beneath me," he said.

They think it's beneath them.

It was beneath the office he holds.

And it's beneath even you".

It's beneath anybody's talents.

Lewis Lapham said it was beneath him.

"I think it's beneath the dignity of the Justice Department".

I think it's beneath him," Buck Henry says.