(v. t.) To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.
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.
Indignation
Definition:
(n.) The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.
(n.) The effect of anger; punishment.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the villagers fail to respect the social code, by not using her new name or by reminding her of her indignity, they have to perform a reparative ritual, at which a goat is sacrificed.
(2) "This unfair and unequal treatment means that children with disabilities – already so disadvantaged – suffer further indignities.
(3) Asked by the BBC whether he would apologise or comply with a demand from Miliband for him to resign, he said: "Well, if someone can explain anything that I said as factually incorrect of course I would consider it...People are slightly spinning and loading into what I said in a way to get false indignation."
(4) The ALA collects information on which books are objected to and reports on prominent recurring themes that tend to generate moral or ideological indignation.
(5) We accept on behalf of our client that public interest demands nothing but total indignation and condemnation from all media reporting but such reporting ought not to persist at the expense of undermining Mr Barklie’s right to a fair trial.” His lawyers said the Metropolitan police had confirmed ”that arrangements were in hand to take the investigation to the next stage”.
(6) Not since Novak Djokovic beat him 6-1, 6-0 in the semi-final of the 2007 Miami Masters – when Murray was injured – has the Scot had to suffer such indignity.
(7) However indignant Hollande may have been about a glossy celebrity magazine revealing the details of his affair with a French actress – and he said his indignation was "total" – whatever reflections and considerations were going through the presidential grey matter on Tuesday morning, the idea of sitting down and drafting his resignation was almost certainly not among them.
(8) The Duchess of Cambridge, due to give birth in the next couple of weeks, will not suffer the indignities of, say, Mary of Modena in 1688, forced to give birth in front of an audience of 200 and still accused of a bit of business with bedpan and changeling.
(9) Last year, in a continuing campaign to improve policing , he produced a book brimming with indignation.
(10) Imagine the dizzy swoon of indignation deprivation: what's upsetting is there's nothing to get upset about.
(11) And we are increasing the number of single rooms in the NHS to ensure no patient suffers this indignity when it is unjustified."
(12) But the State Department's indignation over the leaks of allegedly valuable secrets was, and remains, preposterous.
(13) 2.42am BST 6 mins Jamaica indignant as a corner is awarded when they thought they were getting a foul.
(14) The human pressure cooker could not contain his indignation at having to watch Channel 4 news reporter, Fatima Manji , cover the tragic attack in Nice.
(15) Righteous indignation was tweeted and retweeted, celebrities piled on the pressure, pundits sharpened their quills.
(16) I cried at the time, tears of sadness for her, guilt for me (I should be able to do more), and indignation and anger about the unfairness of it all.
(17) It was classic Loach territory: exploitation, the indignity of unemployment, the resilience and humour of working-class people.
(18) When Elinor and Marianne debate the importance of money in the company of Edward, Marianne reacts indignantly to Elinor's declaration that happiness has much to do with "wealth": "'Elinor, for shame!'
(19) It was found that in a somewhat cyclical succession, patient deviance was followed by the staff's spontaneous moral indignation.
(20) For the next five years at least that is an indignity he will not have to worry about.