dignify

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

As in Samuel Beckett’s tragicomic theater and novels, Tarr’s movies, by turns funny and heartbreaking, dignify human struggle with an uncommon tenacity of vision and empathy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

A spokesperson for Khan told the BBC: "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

The argument—if we can dignify it by such a word—went something like this: “I can’t see a thing on Venus.”

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

Where sorrow 's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett

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

Trump attended a dignified transfer in March 2026 for six U.S. servicemembers killed in the Middle East, and another later that month for fallen aircrew members.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

"They don't believe that safe, dignified burials could really help," says Dr Babou Rukengeza from the charity Save The Children.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

"We started here on July 25th, the very next day, to do all the work...so that all those people could have dignified burials."

From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026

Kay was not called anything but Kay, as be was too dignified to have a nickname and would have flown into a passion if anybody had tried to give him one.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

"You build peace by transforming pain. That takes more than diplomacy. It takes dialogue, decentralised participation and dignifying people's experiences," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025

“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

“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

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

Labour of all kinds is dignifying and honourable; it is the idler, above all others, who is undignified and dishonourable.

From Thrift by Samuel Smiles