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dignity
noun as in excellence, nobility
Strongest matches
decency, decorum, grace, grandeur, greatness, honor, morality, poise, prestige, quality, respectability, self-respect, stature, status, virtue
Strong matches
address, cachet, character, consequence, courtliness, culture, distinction, elevation, eminence, ethics, etiquette, glory, gravity, hauteur, importance, loftiness, majesty, merit, nobleness, perfection, propriety, rank, regard, renown, seemliness, significance, solemnity, splendor, standing, state, stateliness, station, sublimity, worth, worthiness
Example Sentences
Respect for women and the dignity of all Alaskans is our responsibility.
Sometimes he takes money as he disappears, but mostly it seems like he’s after their dignity.
What I know as a human being is that children should be treated with dignity and respect, no matter their nationality or the color of their skin.
Altogether, this means that treating others well requires an understanding about what gives them their dignity and what things they are ultimately trying to achieve.
A Republican whose social group sees wearing a mask as shameful faces a dilemma of dignity.
Yet she spoke of his dignity in such an insane situation and when she touched on his pain she expressed her own on his behalf.
Pakistan was dancing for the U.S. dollar and joined up with it without any dignity.
“You can cut my hair, you can bald me, you can strip me naked and take away my dignity,” she said.
But what about terminally ill patients who live in states like New York, without a Death with Dignity law?
And at $29.99, lighting up all sense of parental dignity and responsibility costs less than a carton of actual cigarettes.
We shall recover again some or all of the steadfastness and dignity of the old religious life.
This alone could hinder the execution of his appointment, for in other things he has excellent qualifications for the dignity.
"It's not fair, Lucy," said Mrs. Haggard reprovingly, with an attempt at matronly dignity.
When d'Aubran entered, the Seneschal was composed and in his wonted habit of ponderous dignity.
But that is past; and I feel, that could birth give dignity, my ancestors of Nassau reigned in this very palace!
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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