I shall not dignify this insensitive remark with an answer. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Uh, yeah, so you won't "dignify" me with a link because... why?. From Wordnik.com. [One more night of convention blogging. The Invesco Field extravaganza.] Reference
The Atlantic's liberal bloggers are puffed up with outrage that Mrs. Clinton would "dignify" the Spectator, as James Fallows puts it. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Vast Lane] Reference
Please do not dignify them by calling them fighters. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL: LEARNING TO DRAW THE LINE] Reference
"I won't even dignify that with a response," Mark says. From Wordnik.com. [ENRON'S DIRTY LAUNDRY] Reference
See my graceful hands, they're the things that dignify. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
And so I dignify the oldest of human institutions -- marriage. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The appeals court did not waste any time attempting to dignify. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
To elevate and dignify her is to elevate and dignify the world. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
It is not the work which dignifies you: it is you who dignify the work. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
He felt it was probably wiser not to dignify the nomination with a response. From Wordnik.com. [The First Woman To Run For President — In 1872] Reference
It is scarcely worth your notice, nor should you dignify it by a direct rejoinder. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
As dress was made to dignify the human body, so a generous courtesy clothes the mind. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
There wasn't any fight; it would not be fair to dignify what followed with such a name. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm Or, Bessie King's New Chum] Reference
There was enough to dignify the connexion in their eyes; but nothing to chill it on either side. From Wordnik.com. [MacMillan's Reading Books Book V] Reference
I would dignify my labor, doing it well and acceptably, carrying always a sunny face and pleasing mood. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
Moore used to say playfully, that he was called, in order to dignify his occupation, "a provision merchant.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Their very presence was enough to sanctify, dignify, and make illustrious any house wherein they might dwell. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
Incidentally teachers themselves, by thinking more nobly of their tasks, can do much to dignify their calling. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit and Music] Reference
A formal apology and reconciliation will, in his judgment, dignify the episode and make a mountain out of a molehill. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
He is directed to take, as a staff and scrip for his journey, all those virtues which expand the heart and dignify the soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference
And can we think that the laborious Paul intended to dignify, patronize, or encourage idle drones, lazy, sluggish, seldom preachers?. From Wordnik.com. [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference
Upon such testimonial, either one of the rulers, or his father, or some kinsman dignify the young man in the midst of the assembly, with. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Germany] Reference
There was none of that servility which Mr. Carlyle has attempted to dignify with the name of "hero-worship," for the rich man was rather. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
The same disposition is resident in adults, and productive of the attainments in science which both delight the mind and dignify the man. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference
This kind of thing may not dignify the memory of Man o 'War, but Hollywood Park has doubled its Friday attendance to about 17,000 people. From Wordnik.com. [Limping Home] Reference
Senator James, the Senator read it and advised that by reason of its character the President ought not to dignify it by any acknowledgment. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
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