dignified

How to use dignified in a sentence

• Rickover retired from the Navy as its longest-serving officer and his successors carried on the tradition of screening each officer candidate, but with a slightly more dignified approach.

  How a Nuclear Submarine Officer Learned to Live in Tight Quarters - Issue 94: Evolving | Steve Weiner | December 30, 2020 | Nautilus

• Miss Manners acknowledges that this is less efficient than social media posts, but she maintains that it is also more dignified.

  Miss Manners: Husband’s rude eating habits driving wife up the wall | Judith Martin, Nicholas Martin, Jacobina Martin | December 18, 2020 | Washington Post

• The idea has always been to empower these musicians toward dignified livelihoods as opposed to giving them handouts, which is unsustainable.

  He Helps Folk Musicians Stay Alive | Daniel Malloy | October 9, 2020 | Ozy

• The search for dignified, ethical alternatives to incarceration is an important one, but electronic ankle monitors are simply not an ethically or technologically effective answer.

  Covid-19 has led to a worrisome uptick in the use of electronic ankle monitors | Amy Nordrum | October 8, 2020 | MIT Technology Review

• “The spiteful debate mirrors a country that is no longer even capable of having a dignified discussion,” read a scathing editorial published by Switzerland’s right-leaning Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper Wednesday morning.

  Election live updates: Debate commission says it will change structure to ensure more ‘orderly discussion’ | John Wagner, Felicia Sonmez, Amy B Wang | September 30, 2020 | Washington Post