dignify

Spain’s Minister for Inclusion, Social Security and Migration Elma Saiz said the measure aims to “recognize, dignify and provide guarantees, opportunities and rights to people who are already in our country.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 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 would not dignify that question with a reply.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

“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

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

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2019

But at a time when too many filmmakers still mistake message-mongering for art, a picture that quietly dignifies the medium is more than sufficient for me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2018

At the same time we discover running through it a vein of sentiment, which blending with the other, dignifies the effect.

From Reminiscences of the Thirty-Fourth Regiment, Mass. Vol. Infantry by William H. Clark

The UN's refugee agency continues to underscore the humanitarian principle that any return should be "voluntary, safe and dignified".

From BBC ● Sep. 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

"The straw polls may show that some candidates are just not viable, and allow them to bow out in a dignified manner," Richard Gowan of the International Crisis Group told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Trump’s remarks were made as he traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to attend a dignified transfer of U.S. service members killed in the war.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

He had obviously never stopped pining for his own home and master; although he ate well and his coat was glossy with health, he never maintained anything but a dignified, unyielding distance.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

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

Educated hope provides the basis for dignifying the labor of teachers.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 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

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

From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2020

The Prince of Wales was severely censured by some of the English journals for dignifying by his presence the nautch-dancing of India.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various