Meaning of stand upon one's dignity | Babel Free

Definitions

To have or affect a high notion of one's own rank, privilege, or character.

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Examples

“They did not stand upon their dignity, nor give their minds to being or to seeming as elegant and as fine as anybody else.”

“"By Gar! you've got an Irish tongue in your head anyhow," cried the saloon-keeper, not quite certain whether to humour this audacious visitor or to stand upon his dignity.”

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