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Monarchical trappings dignified Napoleon Bonaparte’s power grab and still dignify the Inauguration Days of American presidents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

A spokesperson for Sir Sadiq said of Trump's comments: "We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response."

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025

New York Rep. Mike Lawler said Greene’s belief “doesn’t dignify a response,” while Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon observed that “I think enough has already been said. I ignore her.”

From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2024

He said it was important to attract migrants to Portugal to help solve its demographic challenges, saying the "door shouldn't be wide open nor locked," adding: "It is necessary to regulate and dignify."

From Reuters ● Nov. 25, 2023

"I won't dignify that question with a response."

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Your marches are full of empty promises and until you take action that dignifies and respects Black women, I have no choice but to ignore you.

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2020

Heat, however, neither disguises nor dignifies their narcissism of small differences.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2019

In the prosecutorial worldview, a criminal investigation dignifies victims by treating their deaths as crimes instead of sad inevitabilities.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2018

I am so grateful that New York state dignifies immigrants to offer them Medicaid.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 30, 2017

When it simplifies great events, as Stevenson said it must, it produces the feeling of power; and when it dignifies the commonplace, as Schopenhauer said it ought to, it produces the sense of importance.

From Days Off And Other Digressions by Henry Van Dyke

Caesar affected to disdain high office but in 27 B.C. maneuvered the Senate into bestowing upon him, as Agrippa relates, “the dignified honorific of Augustus—‘the Revered One’—close to, but not quite, divine.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

“They’re a lifeline for working Americans who may not otherwise have a dignified retirement.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

And after sentencing, the families' dignified conduct was remarked on by the judge.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

"This marks a new chapter in the fight to build a dignified future for all Venezuelans," the opposition negotiator said in her statement.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

He sat on the sofa, silent and dignified, while Mami fed him crackers and lemonade.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

“They spent too much time dignifying her as a witness for a case that’s about paper entries,” Trusty said.

From Salon ● May 10, 2024

In Ostlund’s biting comedy, de Leon embraced the task of dignifying a character who essentially represents the millions of Filipinos working abroad to support their families back home.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022

Little wonder his photographs of ordinary people on Lagos Island have won plaudits for their warmth and the dignifying eye of his camera.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2022

Asked for comment on Sunday evening regarding the altercation, John LaBombard, a spokesman for Sinema, told The Washington Post: “We are not dignifying this behavior with a response.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

The injustice of these rules, however palpable and atrocious it may be, has not deterred their authors from dignifying them with the name of law.

From The Unconstitutionality of Slavery by Lysander Spooner