stoop to doing

stoop to doing something

to degrade oneself or condescend to doing something; to do something that is beneath one. Whoever thought that the manager of the department would stoop to sweeping up? I never dreamed that Bill would stoop to stealing.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Hardmod	-	Ancient Germanic
Neja	-	Slovene
Jerome	jə-ROM	English
Shemer	-	Biblical
AfËRdita	ah-fər-DEET-ah	Albanian
Julia	JOO-lee-ə (English), YOO-lee-ah (German, Swedish, Danish, Finnish), HOO-lyah (Spanish), YUWL-yah (Polish), YOO-lee-yah (Russian), YOO:-lee-ah (Ancient Roman)	English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian, An