dignify

You are making sure you dignify those relationships, in your own way.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Roger Ebert didn’t dignify “Rad” with a review.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 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

There was still disbelief in his voice when he said he’d checked all the charts and publications on the bridge; our cay was so small that the charts wouldn’t even dignify it with a name.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor

“Honey and Clover” dignifies the clumsy missteps of young adulthood in a way that teens will appreciate, because if rejection and failure have to be a part of life, might as well romanticize it, right?

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2023

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

“Perhaps it’s time to think of a universal wage that recognises and dignifies the noble and irreplaceable tasks you perform.”

From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2020

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

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2019

Woman is not an anomalous being outside all law, that one need make any special arguments to prove that what elevates and dignifies man will educate and dignify woman also.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We do hope that he will finally say something to America, Ukraine, and the entire world that will lead to a real and dignified peace.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

But like Mariam, “Atonement” has no interest in tears, although it’s impossible not to be moved by the film’s messy, dignified humanity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

"He had very limited family involvement around his passing but we assured it was appropriate, met his wishes and was dignified."

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Her grief is quiet and dignified, and somehow this makes it worse.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

“It mattered a lot to me that this was done in the most dignifying way possible,” Sipili, 44, said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

Faith is really important and dignifying the faith and respecting it is really important to us.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2021

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

She added: “It’s not worth dignifying his attacks a lot of the time.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2020

It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general goodwill; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. 

From Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance by Samuel Smiles