noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
beneath...dignity
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He felt it would be beneath his dignity to comment.
quiet authority/dignity (= not saying much but making other people have a particular feeling about you )
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Jack’s air of quiet authority
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
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It may lend a certain dignity to the whole transaction but is notoriously slow.
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Jimmy and the other two escaped with only a certain loss of dignity .
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Also, it was nevertheless her Sunday best and, as such, had a certain innate dignity in spite of its nastiness.
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He was not fat, although the years had lent a certain dignity to his midriff, he was just huge.
great
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Faces of great dignity and considerable charm.
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He says that there is great dignity in whaling.
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Then he turned, extricating himself from the clutter round his feet, and went, with great dignity , downstairs.
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Slowly and with great dignity , Tsu Ma climbed the steps until he stood there at his dead father's side.
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We have adopted it because it gives greater strength and dignity and fullness to the design.
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I behaved with great dignity and showed none of the resentment I may have felt.
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There is also through the training strategy an attempt to give this work greater dignity and esteem.
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He bore his affliction with a great dignity .
human
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The relationship struck at the very roots of their human dignity .
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And in this expectation, even were it to be misguided, there is certainly more human dignity .
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She was spared the trauma of dinner, the object lesson in human dignity , and the smoke of Revolution.
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The new technology of automation had stripped them of any human dignity in their labour.
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The real issue, they predict, will boil down to fairness and simple human dignity .
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If we are interested in real peace and human dignity our attitudes and perspectives should change.
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This belief runs counter both to demographics and to the demands of human dignity .
personal
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Money means mobility, money means independence and personal dignity .
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They see their social life as a struggle for personal dignity in a general social framework that daily denies them this dignity.
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Neither should the inspector be too conscious of personal dignity .
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Noble sense of personal dignity had passed the point where such treatment was tolerable.
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Everyone's standards of behaviour deteriorate so that all personal dignity evaporates.
quiet
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In public, the Khmer Rouge leaders have a quiet dignity .
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Her quiet dignity and solicitousness, despite her illness, impressed us.
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We painted women washing clothes in the waters of Lake Bratan - a timeless ritual conducted with quiet dignity .
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Dunblane grieved for its children, with quiet dignity .
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I won't feel so stupid next time; the whole thing had a quiet dignity about it and I felt good.
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She is glad to share reminiscences of Mansfield, the quiet dignity of which now appears valuable to her.
■ VERB
die
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Instead he became a national hero who enjoyed a long life ... and who died with dignity .
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That is the feeding tube being removed and him being allowed to die with dignity .
give
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It must be Government policy to give the lifer some dignity .
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He gave the dignity to youthful labor that only good teachers can provide.
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We have adopted it because it gives greater strength and dignity and fullness to the design.
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He was the soapbox orator who could quote Virgil or Shakespeare to give dignity to a bitter grudge.
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It gave a curious dignity to the tall crumbling tenements, covering the squalor and ugliness with purifying whiteness.
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There is also through the training strategy an attempt to give this work greater dignity and esteem.
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We need to give children dignity and self-respect.
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Railway builders gave a special dignity and significance to the treatment of tunnel entrances.
keep
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How did old Father Firmin keep his dignity , I ask myself.
lend
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It may lend a certain dignity to the whole transaction but is notoriously slow.
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George Pataki have felt it necessary to lend the dignity of their offices to the national swoon this incident has provoked.
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He was not fat, although the years had lent a certain dignity to his midriff, he was just huge.
lose
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Criticism should never cause the recipient to lose face, inner dignity or self-respect.
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He had lost his dignity years ago.
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No, it wasn't only her father who had lost his dignity .
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Twenty centuries since she watched her Son's long agony on the cross female sorrow has lost all dignity .
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Many family arguments are made worse because people are afraid of losing their dignity .
maintain
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Crosby has maintained his dignity despite a constant catalogue of names linked with the post.
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Even with a rush of students, the building maintained its dignity .
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A butch lesbian with motherly tendencies, she maintained her dignity and in some lights could look beautiful.
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How nobly they fought to maintain their dignity in the face of such awful hardship and humiliation.
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The Funeral Director has to deal with every class of Society. Maintain your dignity under all circumstances.
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Those who have maintained a sliver of dignity through all of this look on from the side, shaking their heads.
preserve
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She preserved her dignity , independence and way of life.
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We can provide solace and preserve dignity and human potential through the very end of life.
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This was based on an explicit philosophy of preserving the dignity and independence of patients.
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How are we going to take care of them, preserve their dignity ?
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George was probably wise to kill Lennie the way he did, preserving Lennie's dignity .
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The first priority is to preserve the dignity of the palaces.
retain
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It deserves to retain its dignity and to escape trivialisation.
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So long as people can walk out of a room and say they have decided to leave on their terms, they retain their dignity .
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Only James Callaghan, reshuffled after devaluation in 1967, retained enough dignity to rise again to the top.
treat
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As employers, we are responsible for making sure employees are treated with respect and dignity .
try
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Bernie tries to save some dignity .
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If you say he's a Leo, you really want to try and puncture his dignity a bit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Juana Alvarez was a woman of compassion and dignity .
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Lawyers must respect the dignity of the court.
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She lost her home and all her money, but she never lost her dignity .
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Very sick people should be allowed to die with dignity .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both solemn and very funny, it insistently finds poetry in the projects, dignity on the street.
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Chichester, by contrast, acquired a considerable dignity from its role as a religious centre.
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It may lend a certain dignity to the whole transaction but is notoriously slow.
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Oh, no! that would be beneath her dignity .
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Penn is granted human dignity by Sarandon, the nun who gently coaxes him into his own redemption.
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She also was pregnant, but she bore her troubles with dignity and we all admired her very much.
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This was based on an explicit philosophy of preserving the dignity and independence of patients.