dignifies
- present tense form of dignify (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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“Honey and Clover” dignifies the clumsy missteps of young adulthood in a way that teens will appreciate, because if rejection and failure have to be a part of life, might as well romanticize it, right?
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2023
Your marches are full of empty promises and until you take action that dignifies and respects Black women, I have no choice but to ignore you.
From Salon • Nov. 15, 2020
Heat, however, neither disguises nor dignifies their narcissism of small differences.
From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2019
I am so grateful that New York state dignifies immigrants to offer them Medicaid.
From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2017
Be his private qualities what they may, his poems ... are at war with reason, with taste, with virtue, in short, with all that dignifies man, or that man reveres.”
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette
