dignify

“The dignity of work” has become a buzzy term, but Mr. Price doesn’t just dignify labor—he makes it beautiful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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

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

When the question was asked, Brendon McCullum did not dignify it with a response.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2024

I would not dignify that question with a reply.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

The precious metal, emphasizing the breaks and flaws, dignifies age, usefulness and mortality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

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

As chivalric single-missile bow-and-arrow exercise dignifies archery above bunch-arrow work in war, so the gentle use of refined tackle dignifies angling above mere fish getting.

From The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle by Charles Barker Bradford

Myanmar this month pledged "safe and dignified" returns for its citizens displaced abroad.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

These aptly named helpers are dignified, reverent and attentive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

But like Mariam, “Atonement” has no interest in tears, although it’s impossible not to be moved by the film’s messy, dignified humanity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

"What I'm hoping to accomplish is that children in rural India should at least get a dignified education," said Dipke during a visit to a school in Maharashtra's Hingoli district.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

They collected themselves sufficiently to pull up short of the wood and make a more dignified approach to the bank.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

“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

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

Faith is really important and dignifying the faith and respecting it is really important to us.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2021

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

The dignifying of personality with land ownership has been such a general social experience in the country that every individual is thought of in the farmer period as a potential landowner.

From The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson