How To Use Dignify In A Sentence
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It was "dignifying" for the poor and consonant with national values, like work, self-help and opposition to welfare dependency.
Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage
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Let not that amiable man, who has found the art of introducing heroism into common life, and dignifying the most trivial circumstances by the sublimity and refinedness of his sentiments, now, in the most important affair, sink below the common level.
Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian
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Doctrine aside, it seemed strange to me that he would choose the word ‘closet’ to dignify Mary; or, to put it the other way around, that something as mundane as a closet could be sanctified.
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Privately, one campaign official says they were aware of several of the more scurrilous rumors about Palin making the rounds of the blogosphere, although the official declined to "dignify" them with any comment.
What McCain Didn't Know About Sarah Palin
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But at the least, he'd stay on the sidelines, unwilling to dignify this dishonorable slime.
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If theirs is a hopeless cause in pursuit of impractical ideals, why dignify them in print?
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I'm not even going to dignify that stupid question with an answer.
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We found the latter lounging about the unwholesome streets; and the former seated at their thresholds, engaged in those pursuits of the chase which the use of a fine-tooth comb would undignify to mere slaughter.
Venetian Life
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I wouldn't dignify this trash by calling it a novel.
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I glared at him not bothering to dignify that with a response, I walked out into the street slamming the door shut behind me.
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Uh, yeah, so you won't "dignify" me with a link because... why?
One more night of convention blogging. The Invesco Field extravaganza.
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The mayor was there to dignify the celebrations.
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When the swift boat attacks began to surface along with a book detailing their charges in early August, the Kerry team let it fester, not wanting to "dignify" the attack.
Drew Westen: What Obama Needs to Do in Denver
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Now, what if I don't indignify myself to the extent of crawlin 'under that line fence?
Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail
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It does not dignify the human condition. It does not elevate the human spirit.
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All those mercenary adventurers who, as we know, are called sophist by the multitude, and regarded as rivals, really teach nothing but the opinions of the majority to which expression is given when large masses are collected, and dignify them with the title of wisdom.
Human Traits and their Social Significance
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The guy has brought all his resources to bear to pay tribute to blue collar heroism, dignify mundane aspirations, memorialize the dead, and console the survivors.
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There is an aesthetic, if we can dignify it with that word, which distinguishes blood sports from each other.
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The Atlantic's liberal bloggers are puffed up with outrage that Mrs. Clinton would "dignify" the Spectator, as James Fallows puts it:
Life in the Vast Lane
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The West understands very well the freedom of speech (which we appreciate) but it does not understand Islamic values, such as dignifying the Prophet (SAWS) and other Islamic sanctities.
When was the last time denmark got this much attention?
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Don't dignify his silly scratchings by calling it scholarship.
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The upholders of the Stratford-Shakespeare superstition call US the hardest names they can think of, and they keep doing it all the time; very well, if they like to descend to that level, let them do it, but I will not so undignify myself as to follow them.
What Is Man? and Other Essays
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It's just that nowadays we feel the need to dignify our obsessions by passing them off as artistic or educational endeavours.
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O consider how you indignify (172) and set at nought that great manifestation of God’s love, “God manifested in the flesh,” how you despise his love pledge to sinners, a greater than which he could not give you, because as great as himself!
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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You could dignify this with the word irony, but it is just the usual story of politics and hypocrisy.
Ken Clarke is ready to betray 800 years of British justice | Henry Porter
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The upholders of the Stratford-Shakespeare superstition call us the hardest names they can think of, and they keep doing it all the time; very well, if they like to descend to that level, let them do it, but I will not so undignify myself as to follow them.
Is Shakespeare Dead?
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‘That's not a question,’ he responded, refusing to dignify the boneheaded inquiry.
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Their dancing, if I can even dignify it as such, was a composite of waist twisting, arm flailing and a vaudeville-style feet shuffle.
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A university does not bring deadly microbes to campus because it is "dignifying" or "endorsing" the microbes.
Geoffrey R. Stone: Ahmadinejad and Columbia's Critics
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She hadn't given up on her little efforts toward beauty, though now they seemed to coarsen rather than dignify her.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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I think it's a way of dressing up and dignifying the fact that, again, they thought this would be a money spinner.
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And I won't even dignify your navy bean suggestion.
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Nonetheless, I have always had some misgivings about dignifying the count at all.
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Socialism will sacrifice these lives because it believes that to dignify a foetus with the title ‘human’ is a religious superstition.
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Should we dignify meter maids and meter lads with the term "parking enforcement" when the entire scheme is merely a shakedown?
The Seattle Times
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AA - I agree that Nicole Belle's attack was unfair (assuming you quoted it correctly, as I do) and that her decision not to "dignify" you with a link does suggest the possibility of an attempt to deceive (albeit a ham-handed one as presumably most readers know how to get to your site).
Nicole Belle embarrasses herself with a childishly written, dishonest smear.
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Don't try to dignify those few hairs on your face by calling them a beard!
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She hadn't given up on her little efforts toward beauty, though now they seemed to coarsen rather than dignify her.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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It ain't easy, but it ain't the Tour [and] we will not even dignify golfers in this discussion.
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Bud stared straight ahead, sitting straight as a judge, determined to maintain what he must have supposed was his duty to dignify his badge.
KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
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You can reply in ways that do NOT dignify the claim (any more than any response dignifies it, at least), without making similarly silly claims yourself.
Teabaggin’
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When did we no longer appreciate that to dignify certain modes of behavior, manners, and ways of being with artistic representation was implicitly to glorify and promote them?
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The day we pin the label "rankism" on indignifying behaviors (as women pinned "sexism" on a range of disempowering behaviors), will mark the beginning of its demise.
Robert Fuller: Peaceful Revolution: What Are Moms Rising Against?
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Surely the hipster yuppies and rich old fogeys will appreciate the urban artistic expression dignifying the view from the windows of their posh homes.
You Know Where to Find Me
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The Scottish election will confirm that there is a crisis of democracy in Britain today, in so far as nearly half of us won't even bother to get out and dignify the great devolution experiment with a vote.
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It is probably a waste of time to dignify this silliness.
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The outcome is a series of eye-catching shelters that enhance and dignify bus travel and make a strong statement in the urban environment.
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We won't dignify this kind of speculation with a comment.
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We won't dignify this kind of speculation with a comment.
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The most brazen sophistry could not dignify by the name of "loan" the coin contemptuously flung to a beachcomber who slept on the bare boards of the public market.
Cabbages and Kings
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Niccolò, therefore, caused this castle to be built, which he strengthened with massive walls and towers commanding the whole city, and rendered inaccessible by surrounding it with a deep and wide canal from the river Reno.], and modern civilization has not crossed the castle moat, to undignify its exterior with any visible touch of the present.
Italian Journeys
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Emphasising that he would not like to "dignify" Liberhan's charge that he forestalled the submission of the 1,029-page report, Anupam Gupta said he was happy that he quit the Commission at the right time.
Undefined
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Pagan or Chris - tian allegorism of myth is dismissed or degraded as wrongly dignifying myth or else ignoring history in favor of mystery.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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I'm not even going to dignify that stupid question with an answer.
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I'm not even going to dignify that stupid question with an answer.
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Critics may dignify it as ‘street-smarts,’ but for most home-school parents, this kind of ‘education’ is precisely what they wish to protect their children from.
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The assorted weirdos (let's not dignify them with the term ‘contestants’) will be initially split into two separate groups of 12, each unaware of the others existence.
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But if those seeking to understand the genome through bioinformatic and evolutionary analysis had had just one fraction of a percent of the funds available to the Consortium and Celera, they might have already achieved the transformation of mere data (let us not dignify it as "knowledge") into understanding?
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And the fact that women anywhere are willing to dignify such baboonery with a response infuriates me.
What's That Got To Do With the Price of an Intact Hymen in China?
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‘Stability’ is a fancy term to dignify laziness and complacency as sophistication.
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Even the name of the war proved contentious; for years the government spurned the term civil war as dignifying the conflict and preferred bandit war.
Bloodlust
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I shall not dignify this insensitive remark with an answer
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When the Bush campaign began branding Kerry as a flip-flopper the day he became the presumptive nominee, the Kerry campaign let it fester, not wanting to "dignify" the attack.
Drew Westen: What Obama Needs to Do in Denver
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We would rather not dignify their claims with a response, but we fear that if they are left unchallenged they may enter popular currency.
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If the last thirty years teaches us anything, it's that the Obama Administration needs to shake off worries about dignifying conservative craziness with a response.
Peter Birkenhead: I'll Quit Whining When You Start Fighting
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However, an ivory plaque of Christ blessing Otto II and Theophano shows how the match could dignify Saxon imperial pretensions.
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When did we no longer appreciate that to dignify certain modes of behavior, manners, and ways of being with artistic representation was implicitly to glorify and promote them?
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The upholders of the Stratford-Shakespeare superstition call _us_ the hardest names they can think of, and they keep doing it all the time; very well, if they like to descend to that level, let them do it, but I will not so undignify myself as to follow them.
Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography
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Don't dignify his silly scratchings by calling it scholarship.
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Could we stop dignifying its vengeance and violence as ‘rulings’?
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But it's the willingness to indignify others, and the fact that we are still collectively holding our tongues -- as previous generations did about racism -- that lies at the root of many of the problems that vex us today.
Robert Fuller: Racism and Rankism: We Won't Eradicate the One Until We Take on the Other
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I. ii.155 (14,6) [deck'd the sea] _To deck the sea_, if explained, to honour, adorn, or dignify, is indeed ridiculous, but the original import of the verb _deck_ is, _to cover_; so in some parts they yet say _deck the table_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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the dignifying effect of his presence
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There is a fine square here called Madison, in the centre of which trees rise from fountain-watered grass, and statued figures of people who were men in their day and did things, palatial buildings, dignifying commerce, form the square.
Impressions of a War Correspondent
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This sort of gewgaws undignify a speech, instead of adding
A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07
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More importantly, what sort of record label would dignify such amateurish enthusiasm by actually releasing it?
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Well, we're in the process now of overreacting to fairly small, possibly in part copycat, improvised and wholly unpersuasive attacks, if we want to dignify them with that name.
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Rudd hated the idea of dignifying the Selective Service with probing questions.
1968 the Year that Rocked the World
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The most brazen sophistry could not dignify by the name of "loan" the coin contemptuously flung to a beach-comber who slept on the bare boards of the public market.
Cabbages and Kings
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Bud stared straight ahead, sitting straight as a judge, determined to maintain what he must have supposed was his duty to dignify his badge.
KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
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The struggle was to make it as clean as it could be while dignifying the important history of these tobacco wars, the steps that led to regulation of the tobacco industry.
Deborah Stambler: Addiction Incorporated: Doing Some Good
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She did not dignify his sarcasm with an answer but merely strode to a nearby control panel and keyed a summons.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Is it that all the newspapers and TV stations in the world decided that they did not want to "dignify" that story by investigating it to see if it were true or false?
527s!
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This sort of gewgaws undignify a speech, instead of adding a grace.
A Tramp Abroad
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Having said that, senator, do you think that as president, Barack Obama would be 'dignifying' Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by meeting him?
Debate Questions for Joe Biden
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Everyone knows that it's imprudent to indignify a somebody.
Robert Fuller: Why Do We Want to Be Famous?
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Of course he denies all of this and, in an act of arrogance that seems consistent with the Machiavellian machinations imputed to him, refuses to dignify the charges with a response.
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She did not dignify his sarcasm with an answer but merely strode to a nearby control panel and keyed a summons.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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What's causing you to dignify it by acting as if it's a worthy endeavor rather than yet another unnecessary cash-in attempt?
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I. ii.155 (14,6) [deck'd the sea] _To deck the sea_, if explained, to honour, adorn, or dignify, is indeed ridiculous, but the original import of the verb _deck_ is, _to cover_; so in some parts they yet say _deck the table_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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They chose to ignore the science and to rely instead on Democratic conventional wisdom, that bringing a smear into the light of day and attacking it there before it captures the popular imagination only draws attention to it, and that it's better not to "dignify" it.
Drew Westen: What Obama Needs to Do in the Final Sixty Days: Avoiding President Palin
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Thanks very much indeed to the vigilant pair who pointed out my lapsus calami I can't dignify it with the phrase 'deliberate error'! replacing Birds with Clouds...
Et tu Brute?
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I don't think we can dignify today's announcement with the word U-turn.
BBC News - Home
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But what could be better than a biblical ingredient for enhancing and dignifying the material?
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Confronted with such an interrogation our beloved Prime Minister would undoubtedly say that he would not dignify it with acknowledgement, let alone answers, and he would be perfectly within his rights to do so.