marry beneath oneself

He is obligated by family custom not to marry beneath himself.

She affected to look down on you, to think that I was marrying beneath me.

Sophia had, in a sense, married beneath her, for although Mark came of a good clerical family he was without private means.

She feels he is marrying beneath his social class.

Their marriage is kept a secret from the governor who would immediately disown Lee if he found that his son married beneath him.

The second daughter, Mary, did rather better financially, though socially she married beneath her.

It is true that we did not want her to marry beneath her.

Randi had always known that she married beneath herself.

He would never have married beneath him if you hadn't turned his father against him.

It is about a rich New York woman born in 1910 who, at the age of 21, marries beneath her.