Definitions

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  • In a dignified manner.

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  • adverb in a dignified manner

Etymologies

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dignified +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • He awoke kicking the offended foot, and gazed at the cockroach that did not scuttle, but that walked dignifiedly away.

    CHAPTER V 2010

  • I even very dignifiedly pretended I was sober enough to get to the bar and get a Hurricane ordered.

    Here We Go Again The Daily Growler 2006

  • In the same manner the women graciously and dignifiedly marched up the steps of the Union Buildings to deliver their demands, they walked down the steps.

    August 2006 2006

  • Temperamental antagonisms may be suffered, but like feuds of emperors, who fight dignifiedly across kingdoms.

    Representative Men 2006

  • Without another look he went dignifiedly upon his way, but the impression of her charming personality went with him.

    Jennie Gerhardt 2004

  • Les Cotils was quiet and the hotel was dignifiedly quiet with a restaurant overlooking the sea and delicious French food.

    Paradise For Two Neels, Betty 1989

  • But after 1945 he had been consistently and dignifiedly repentant.

    Pillars of the Third Reich Stone, Norman 1982

  • Mr. Seward therefore, at the outset, knew his position, and most opportunely and dignifiedly maintained a bearing all the more noble because it proceeded from a government which had taken arms against a sea of troubles.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • Once in a while he stalked dignifiedly out of the bushes and crowed.

    Rebecca Mary Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • Oswald noticed that every one round the table where H. O.'s boots were dignifiedly respected as they lay, was a horrid pale colour, like when the salt is thrown into snapdragons.

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

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