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Example sentences for: dignify

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I am reluctant to dignify his hatchet job with a lengthy reply, but some of his claims are so defamatory that they should be addressed, if only for the record.
Another, nationally aired series of advertisements relied on some wordplay achieved by wrongly stressing the first word of the name of a breakfast food whose pseudo-colloquial garble I will not dignify by quoting.