Undignified.

"Where's the Muskrat?" Moominmamma suddenly asked in a horrified voice.

"He wouldn't come," answered Moominpappa. "He said it was unnecessary and undignified for a philosopher to rush about like this. I had to leave him, but I let him keep the hammock."

"Oh, well," sighed Moominmamma. "It's difficult to understand philosophers."

-from Comet in Moominland, by Tove Jansson, trans Elizabeth Portch.

Undiginified indeed.... I never let anything like that stop me.