Dignity vs Dirty - What's the difference?
dignity | dirty |
A quality or state worthy of esteem and respect.
* 1752 , (Henry Fielding), , I. viii
* 1981 , African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights , art. 5
* 2008 , Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) [Switzerland]
Decorum, formality, stateliness.
* 1934 , Aldous Huxley, "Puerto Barrios", in Beyond the Mexique Bay :
High office, rank, or station.
* 1781 , Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , F. III. 231:
* Macaulay
One holding high rank; a dignitary.
* Bible, Jude 8.
(obsolete) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.
* Sir Thomas Browne
Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
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That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
Out of tune.
Of color, discolored by impurities.
(computing) Containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory.
(slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
(informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
Sleety; gusty; stormy.
* M. Arnold
* (Douglas Adams),
To make (something) dirty.
To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
To become soiled.
As a noun dignity
is a quality or state worthy of esteem and respect.As an adjective dirty is
unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.As an adverb dirty is
in a dirty manner.As a verb dirty is
to make (something) dirty.dignity
English
(wikipedia dignity)Noun
(dignities)- He uttered this ... with great majesty, or, as he called it, dignity .
- Every individual shall have the right to the respect of the dignity inherent in a human being.
- 'The dignity' of living beings with regard to plants: Moral consideration of plants for their own sake', 3: ... the ECNH has been expected to make proposals from an ethical perspective to concretise the constitutional term ' dignity of living beings with regard to plants.
Dignity of Plants
- Official DIGNITY tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.Columbia World of Quotations 1996.
- He ... distributed the civil and military dignities among his favourites and followers.
- And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?
- These filthy dreamers speak evil of dignities .
- Sciences concluding from dignities , and principles known by themselves.
Synonyms
* worth * worthinessCoordinate terms
* augustness, humanness, nobility, majesty, grandeur, glory, superiority, wonderfulnessSee also
* affirmation * integrity * self-respect * self-esteem * self-worthReferences
Anagrams
*dirty
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Adjective
(er)The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable.
- Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, dirty sea.
- Rain type 17 was a dirty blatter battering against his windscreen so hard that it didn't make much odds whether he had his wipers on or off.