Dignity
dignity (noun) -
a. How worthy someone is of respect from other people
b. A person's sense of their own value and worthiness of respect
dignified (adjective)
beneath one's dignity
lacks dignity
look dignified
remain dignified
fulfil public office with dignity and respect
enhance the dignity of
at least his dignity remained
dignity hard to repair
bear with dignity
maintain dignity
keep dignity
bear with stoic dignity
dignity and humiliation
die with dignity
with great dignity
in a slow and dignified manner
treat with dignity
with reserve and dignity
with courage and dignity
shed dignity on
strength and dignity in faces
conduct oneself with composure and dignity
treating an orangutan with the dignity accorded to neighbouring tribes
Example sentences:
* His wife regarded manual work such as digging holes, as beneath her husband's dignity.
* They remained dignified even in defeat.
* When his pride or dignity were crossed he was capable of fierce anger and determinate action.
* "She's just old enough to have dignity."
* I felt like screaming at him but I was determined to keep my dignity.
* "Little enough was left him now, but at least his dignity remained, though no one but himself could see it."
* Dull and wanting though he might be, he at least still had dignity.
* "With as much dignity as she could muster, she stalked past her former lover into the bathroom."
* "At least have the dignity to keep your feelings to yourself."
* The elderly matron deported herself with great dignity.
* A lion is a creature of much dignity.
* "If you say he's a Leo, you really want to try and puncture his dignity a bit."
* "In the most impressive Inca ruins I had seen, the stones did not seem toppled; the remains had too much dignity for that."
* "Thus they considered it an affront to a man's dignity; but not to a woman's; to earn a wage only on a par with social security benefits."
* Amazingly, massively obese Alan escaped with only a few small cuts and bruises and a little lost dignity.
* "Women, she argues, are deprived of all but the most trivial sources of dignity or self-respect."
* The cancer patient was allowed to die with comfort and dignity.
* "To be confronted with modern science, and to have no route into it, is an awesome affront to human dignity, just as the transistor radio is an affront to many an ancient faith."
* "It is as if the academic community takes the view that theories on ancient astronauts are beneath their dignity."
* "Was it perhaps because the work did indeed look like typewriting (by this time neither a highly paid nor a highly regarded occupation and mostly done by women) and therefore an effeminate calling and beneath a man's dignity?"
* "Slowly, with great dignity, the teacher sat, planting his staff before him."
* Sedate, sober men, that in the day time comported themselves in all seriousness and dignity, at night relaxed their staidness and joined deliriously in the quadrilles of the waltz.
* In the village community there was an emphasis on the importance of the individual, on living with total dignity in family households, on the provision of workshops for the making of marketable goods, and on cultural, artistic, and spiritual activities in generous measure.
* "Her deep and tender sympathy for all who were suffering and afflicted expressed itself in a manner of impressive graciousness and dignity."
* She mustered up as much dignity as she possibly could and stood up and asked the teacher the question that was burning in her mind.
* "Our human dignity of being made in the image and likeness of God takes on new meaning."
* And, without waiting for a reply to his question about whether she gave Morton tacit approval for the book which became the biggest seller in the history of royal publishing, Philip went on to accuse his daughter-in-law of putting the dignity of the Crown at risk."
* It is an assertion of the dignity of humanity.
* Appalled, she turned her face away, struggling for dignity.
* She felt foolish and looked up, wanting to apologise or something, but mainly wanting to get back to her room with some kind of dignity after teh incident.
* "Apart from making a number of impressive black and white studies of the rugged terrain, he also photographed local people, always on the look-out for strength and dignity in their faces that showed they had not been eroded by the harsh circumstances in which they lived.
* Off the fottball field, he conducted himself with the same composure and dignity as he did on the field.
* "No, we are not skilled people as such, but we also have our dignity and self respect."
* "So long as people can walk out of a room and say they have decided to leave on their terms, they retain their dignity."
* "So the question 'Who am I?' reveals both our dignity and our folly."
* They treated her with dignity as an individual
* "The first 30 years of the computer age have spawned libraries of speculation as to the ultimate impact of computers on human dignity and morale."
* "'Thank you,' she smiled back, retaining a slight sense of reserve or dignity."
* "The seats, upholstered in dark red leather, held you high above the surface of the road and shed a certain dignity on your journey; you did not so much travel as process."
* "For over thirty years, along with my fellow teachers, I have been going to educational conferences, and training sessions, and workshops, to hear countless leaders in education talk, as you do, about the dignity of the child, and the importance of individual differences, and of fostering positive self-concepts, and building on the interests of the child, and letting the child learn from curiosity rather than fear."
* "Dignity is a synthetic property, invented to stop the ears against the noises of humiliation."
* "The Dyaks of Borneo, for instance, have always referred to the orangutan as the" man of the forest", treating him at least with the dignity accorded to neighbouring tribes, whereas the Europeans, on examining the first Tierra del Fuegans brought back to the West, could not decide whether to classify them as humans or animals."
* The tycoon would throw anybody in his swimming-pool; often forgetful of the cost, be it of a junior employee's ruined wristwatch or an editor's dignity (the watch could be paid for afterwards: dignity was harder to repair).
* I prefer to keep my dignity and freedom.
* I'd rather keep my dignity.
* He bore his unpopularity with the stoic dignity.
* "With an effort Shannon pulled herself up to her full five-feet-three-inch height, desperately striving for some sort of dignity, even though she was shivering all over."
* The priest spoke with quiet dignity.
* "It is likely that the motive for the new designs may have been to enhance the dignity of the President and to stress his magnificence; it is impossible to say if there was any deliberate intention of claiming additional status for him, or if this was a subsequent interpretation of the imagery."
* "Thinking that if he ignored her, didn't show even a whisper of interest in her, she would give up and go home under her own steam, thereby allowing her to rescue some of her dignity."
* "It was like a slap in the face, the insult so unexpected, and the revelation of what he had really thought of her all along was so hurtful, so callous that she went rigid in his arms, white with stiff dignity, eyes brilliant with pain."
