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dignified

/dig-nuh-fahyd/US // ˈdɪg nəˌfaɪd //UK // (ˈdɪɡnɪˌfaɪd) //

端庄,尊严,庄重,庄重的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized or marked by dignity of aspect or manner; stately; decorous: dignified conduct.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.honorable

Examples

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • “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.

  • He wore white gloves, a dignified long black coat, and matching pants and vest, and he carried a dark walking stick.

  • There is certainly a lucrative yet dignified sweet spot between small time micro-brewer and soulless mass-producer.

  • "Cremation is not necessary to have safe and dignified burial," Tarik Jasarevic tells me.

  • Even at its bushiest, in the Oscar-winning seventies-set Argo, the Affleck beard remained hot and dignified.

  • If they were unable to perform any available job, they served as dignified attendants.

  • He was a very dignified man, and his manner was nearly always calm, no matter how stirred up he might have felt in his mind.

  • This does not seem strange when we know what a sober, serious, dignified man Yung Pak's father was.

  • There are some bold hights dignified as mountains below Coblentz, but the finest of the scenery is above.

  • It may be added that they start with the most dignified part of this crown of creation, viz., the human head.

  • I was proud to see that woman dance; there was something so firm and dignified, and yet natural in her motion.