dignify
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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
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
"I won't dignify the attacker's words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile," said Mr Thompson.
From BBC • Aug. 28, 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
She knew that she was mouthing words; and she realized suddenly that her mother scorned to dignify these words with her attention.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing dignify
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Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
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