dignity
Example Sentences
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The basic principle that all citizens deserve equal access to services and experiences is a matter of safety and human dignity that warrants regulatory protection.
From Los Angeles Times
Though unable to celebrate the film at the Oscars on Sunday, Malhees said he stands “with pride and dignity” and that his “spirit will be with the Voice of Hind Rajab that night.”
From Los Angeles Times
She said that his widow, Patricia Houston, "with great dignity and courage, describes to the court the devastating impact of the loss of her husband… in her words, her world has collapsed."
From BBC
Subversive jokes about the Nazi regime gave “decent Germans a fleeting sense of dignity, of feeling that they were resisting.”
“Thirty dollars to me means getting my own place, to live with a bit of dignity,” she says.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
