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• v  confer dignity or honor upon
  He was dignified with a title
• v  raise the status of
• a  having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance
  her dignified demeanor
  the director of the school was a dignified white-haired gentleman
• s  having or showing self-esteem

• Mbeki appeared calm and dignified as he defended his legacy of 14 years as the premier policy architect of a post-apartheid South African state, first as deputy president under .
• Cusato designed her first small home after hurricane Katrina as "a dignified alternative to the FEMA trailer.
• That passive form of euthanasia, Sebire objected, was "neither dignified, humane, or respectful of me or my children.

• ennoble
• dignify
• self-respecting
• self-respectful

• undignified

News & Articles

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• Dignified end to torn, tattered
  MORTON — Thirty-nine worn, tattered American flags will be “destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning” Saturday, just as the U.S. Flag Code recommends.
  June 15, 2013 - Peoria Journal Star
• ‘Dignified disposal’
  Members of Fort Cumberland Post 13, American Legion, conduct an unserviceable flag retirement ceremony outside the post home in Cumberland Friday evening. The worn and faded banners were burned in a “dignified disposal.”
  June 15, 2013 - Cumberland Times-News
• Dignified Flag Disposal held in Little Rock on Flag Day
  (KATV) Little Rock - When a flag is beyond repair the appropriate way to dispose of it, is by burning it. Today, June 14, being Flag Day, it provides a single day to retire the flag in an honorable and dignified way.
  June 14, 2013 - KATV Little Rock