dignified

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Others require “humane and dignified treatment” while outlawing services performed in an “incompetent” or “cruel manner.”

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

Wet ground conditions across the crematorium mean ashes could not be scattered, because they "may not settle naturally or in a dignified way".

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

There’s the lab-coated museum curator who treats statues in underground storage as dignified friends worth revisiting.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

US Vice President JD Vance on Monday attended the dignified transfer ceremony for the seventh soldier killed in the Middle East war.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

He could not believe that a dignified body of sober-minded legislators were allowing these “shaking Quakers” with their throbbing consciences to control the national agenda.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis