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

"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

Without some capacity for it I could not have qualified as a Mobile, and I received formal training in it on Hain, where they dignify it with the title of Farfetching.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Chekhov may not falsely console, but he dignifies the human struggle in a secular parable that lives again through the magic of ensemble brio and a director at the top of his game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

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

But Chalfant, 74, the winner of last year’s Obie Award for lifetime achievement, complicates and dignifies the material.

From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2019

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

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2019

It is held That valor is the chiefest virtue; Most dignifies the haver: if it be, The man I speak of cannot in the world Be singly counterpoised.

From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by J. (Jesse) Clement

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

"Should the family wish for him to be buried on the territory of Serbia, we will help ensure that this is done in a dignified and proper manner," he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

President Trump on Wednesday attended the dignified transfer of four U.S. servicemembers recently killed in the Middle East during the Iran war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 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

His dignified compassion in the face of life’s challenges makes his music irresistible, even when it is tranquil.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Little wonder his photographs of ordinary people on Lagos Island have won plaudits for their warmth and the dignifying eye of his camera.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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

Still, she treats the material with absolute seriousness, dignifying the bits that don’t deserve it, swerving into an emotionalism that the script doesn’t remotely earn.

From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2021

Dunmore evidently didn't think that worth dignifying with an answer.

From Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper