(a.) Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.
(imp. & p. p.) of Dignify
Example Sentences:
(1) With all attempts at mediation failing - Gbagbo has repeatedly rejected offers of a "safe and dignified" exit - the African Union reaffirmed its recognition of Ouattara as the rightful leader of Ivory Coast in March.
(2) But all are agreed that his final retirement was dignified.
(3) The group’s trip to Rome is designed to coincide with a workshop hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Tuesday called Protect the Earth, Dignify Humanity, which will feature speeches by Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, and Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs.
(4) Lawrence is said to bristle at the now-cliched description of her as "dignified".
(5) As a small group of Abbado's relatives, including two of his children, looked on, Barenboim, La Scala's current music director, appeared quietly moved as the commemorative performance ended after about 20 minutes to dignified applause from the piazza.
(6) Due to a decade of tri-annual BBC2 exposure, dogged Dantean circuits of provincial comedy venues, conscious manipulation of vulnerable broadsheet opinion formers and undeserved good luck, I am now popular enough to have caught the eye of touts or, as we now dignify them, Secondary Ticketing Agents™.
(7) Len McCluskey, the general secretary of the Unite union, met Corbyn and his deputy leader, Tom Watson, on Tuesday in what some Corbyn loyalists hope will be the first step towards a brokered deal – involving MPs, unions and the party’s national executive committee – that could ensure a dignified exit for the embattled leader.
(8) 2006 : Fifa vice-president Jack Warner welcomes questions from an investigative reporter asking about alleged corruption: "I would spit on you – but I will not dignify you with my spit ... go fuck yourself ... no foreigner, particularly a white foreigner, will come to my country and harass me."
(9) Will's singing is completely English; dignified, buttoned-up even; the tune is country-tinged and classic.
(10) It was a brave and dignified statement that must have cost him hours of agonising to make.
(11) President Bush maintained a silence that could possibly be characterised as dignified.
(12) Each of these elements was crucial to the legislation’s dignified debate and ultimate success.
(13) Struggling to maintain his composure, Ed, the 40-year-old former energy secretary, made a short, dignified acceptance speech in which he heaped praise on his brother and the other defeated candidates, Ed Balls, Andy Burnham and Diane Abbott .
(14) The arithmetic might still have prevented it, but he would have secured two things: an earlier timing of Brown’s dignified statement standing down to make way for a new Labour leader and, more crucially, far better terms from the Tories.
(15) And to use this term is to dignify a death cult, a death cult that in declaring itself a caliphate has declared war on the world.” Abbott said more than 60 Australians were believed to be fighting with Isis and Al-Nusra and “more than 60 Australians have had their passports suspended to prevent them from joining terrorist groups in the Middle East”.
(16) The left has not resolved the question of giving people a genuine voice at work so as to enact a more dignified workplace.
(17) Abrahams said: “When taken with our plans to defend the NHS and end the Tory crisis of social care , it is clear that only a Labour government will guarantee a dignified living standard for older people.
(18) The slight and dignified Madame Bong drew confidence from the correspondent who used his physical presence to inspire calm rather than threat.
(19) Bit of muttering about justifying selling one's own grandmother Updated at 1.21pm BST 1.06pm BST As Barb Jacobson, of the European Citizen's initiative for a basic income, puts it, a basic income should be high enough for everyone to have a dignified life in society, and to take part in society.
(20) Kay Gilderdale, a dignified women has sat smartly dressed in the dock listening intently as her actions were depicted by the prosecution as an attempt to murder her daughter.
Dowager
Definition:
(n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease.
(n.) A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank.
Example Sentences:
(1) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
(2) A pair of Dutch dowagers try chatting him up from their bar stools, and they have a conversation neither party understands before Smith repairs to his table.
(3) The structure will dwarf nearby buildings, including the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, an officially recognised cultural asset built in 1926 to honour the emperor and empress dowager Shoken.
(4) Johnson also appeared to go around dismissing staff with about as much regard as a dowager for a housemaid, though she says this wasn't accurate.
(5) The story of the Grantham family has reached 1924, and, according to Mrs Hughes, “Downton is catching up with the times we live in.” “That is exactly what I’m afraid of,” replies Carson, suggesting yet more resistance to impending modernity – which, of course, means plenty of opportunity for baffled zingers from the Dowager Countess.
(6) But they can still appear as champions of the people The old image of the Establishment was summed up by the cartoons of H.M. Bateman in the Twenties, showing a hapless outsider committing a faux pas at a club or grand reception, faced by spluttering colonels or outraged dowagers.
(7) • Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, stately home owner and writer, born 31 March 1920; died 24 September 2014
(8) The plot of Anderson's pink gateau of a movie, with its dowager duchesses, murderers and bakers, turns on the fate of a "priceless" Renaissance portrait of a youth pensively clawing an apple with long, bony fingers.
(9) Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, who has died aged 94, was for more than half a century the chatelaine of Chatsworth House , the great stately home and estate in Derbyshire.
(10) The 78-year-old actor who plays the Dowager Countess of Grantham in the ITV drama series said she would find it too frustrating to watch and notice how she could have done things better.
(11) Johnston – whose credits include The Royle Family, Coronation Street and Waking the Dead – will play Denker, lady's maid to Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess of Grantham.
(12) As Latifah oversees the ceremony, Madonna – rocking a cane, a white suit and a cowboy hat – hobbles onto the stage looking like a yoga enthusiast version of the Dowager Countess to sing a few verses of Open Your Heart to Me.
(13) "Julian Fellowes has written another brilliant character in Martha Levinson, who will be a wonderful combatant for Maggie Smith's dowager countess and we are excited at the prospect of Shirley MacLaine playing her."
(14) The spine is frequently involved, so that elderly women with kyphosis due to multiple compression fractures ("dowager's hump") are commonly seen in a geriatric practice.
(15) It's enough to make the Dowager Countess drop her cucumber sandwich.
(16) His new film focuses on a hotel concierge called Monsieur Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) and a bellhop called Zero (newcomer Tony Revolori) who endeavour to recover an inheritance left to Gustave by a wealthy dowager.
(17) Really, we're like the dowager countess of fashion columns.
(18) Daisy [the aspiring assistant cook] is as much a character as Violet [Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess of Grantham].” Carnival is mining a more distant past for a BBC America-backed drama for BBC2 this autumn, The Last Kingdom, based on the popular Saxon Stories novels by Bernard Cornwell, brought to Neame’s attention two years ago.
(19) Her withering asides and perfectly-timed eye-rolls have long been the highlight of Downton Abbey, but the dowager countess, as played by Maggie Smith, might be about to find herself with some competition.
(20) Then when [the doctor]’s arrived, I’ll hold you down and tear the clothes from your body, if that’s what it takes.” Real talk from the dowager countess When Cousin Isobel feels guilty about feeling jealous at seeing Mary "come alive again": CI: “It's immoral to react in such a jealous and selfish way.” DC: “If we only had moral thoughts, what would the poor churchmen find to do?