'dignify' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the idea of making something or someone more worthy of respect or honor. For example: The mayor's presence at the celebration dignified the occasion.
Due to a decade of tri-annual BBC2 exposure, dogged Dantean circuits of provincial comedy venues, conscious manipulation of vulnerable broadsheet opinion formers and undeserved good luck, I am now popular enough to have caught the eye of touts or, as we now dignify them, Secondary Ticketing Agents™.
That added another layer of pathos, which made me even more keen to dignify these last two commercial skulls".
With many more coups and killings left unsanctioned, membership is as likely to dignify rights-abusers as to correct them.What, then, is the point of the Commonwealth?
Although many centre-right French politicians refuse even to dignify the Front with the term "political party", there will be others who see in its implosion a chance to mop up some of its vote.The right has been battered across the European Union in recent years, defeated and outflanked by the new left.
The accusation of genocide is "a legal fabrication which does not correspond to the longing of the relatives of victims to dignify their loved ones…and to do justice," said the statement, which did not refer directly to the Ríos Montt case.
He argued that "sexual high jinks among public figures can be the first stage towards wider misdemeanours" (citing Charles II, John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton) and complained of the judge imposing his own "strange puritan universe" on an undeserving nation.Osama had booze-filled sex romps with hookersRupert Murdoch's News of the World did not dignify the ruling with comment.
Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre—How We Dignify the Dead.
Most figures are elegantly displayed in glass cubes in a low-lit room, the idea being to dignify them.
Europe cannot understand America's failure to see this.Americans cannot understand why some Europeans dignify terrorism as legitimate "resistance" to an occupation which, but for Palestinian intransigence, Israel's previous government would have ended anywayWhat Europeans fail to see is that, precisely because of his steadfastness in the war against terrorism, Mr Bush is widely admired in America.
The central idea is to dignify traditional art, and, says Stéphane Martin, the museum's director, "to put non-European culture on an equal footing with other civilisations".
In April the Clinton administration failed to agree to a deal with China for fear that Congress would reject it.Come the Seattle meeting, ministers will no doubt cobble together something that they can dignify with the name of "millennium round".
