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UK
/dˈɪɡnɪti/
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[ US /ˈdɪɡnəti/ ]
[ US /ˈdɪɡnəti/ ]
NOUN
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the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect
showed his true dignity when under pressure
it was beneath his dignity to cheat -
high office or rank or station
he respected the dignity of the emissaries -
formality in bearing and appearance
he behaved with great dignity
How To Use dignity In A Sentence
- These same people also routinely said they felt comfortable with Bush as a leader with values and dignity.
- She looks terrible, shorn of all her beauty and dignity.
- This was the reality glossed over in television fiction; indignity, suspicion, denial of the decencies. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
- Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters. Jamaica Information Service
- He gathered himself up with as much dignity as he could muster before glaring at me.
- Even the chief civil authority of the town was deterred from sallying forth by a remembrance of a predecessor in the provostship who had been buried in a stable mixen all but his head, to the detriment of his clothes and the still greater and more lasting hurt to his dignity. Patsy
- Meanwhile, the sister is trying to maintain standards and dignity, washing her clothes and covering her body.
- Oh bravissimo in chorus, and he would have danced out into the middle of the room before us all, had not Fortunata whispered in his ear, telling him, I suppose, that such low buffoonery was not in keeping with his dignity. Satyricon
- Faces of great dignity and considerable charm.
- We should look to the glory and splendor of the arena … Where even the most untalented one-hit-wonder will be able to regain a sliver of dignity before their untimely demise. 2010 February « The Graveyard