A ship's captain has to maintain the proper dignity.
His efforts to project some sort of proper dignity would have been amusing if they hadn't been so pathetic.
Like most such artifacts, it is available to any buyer who will display it with proper dignity.
And thus the proper dignity must be granted us.
I had been given a special position in this household, a position I was expected to maintain with proper dignity.
Feeling the proper dignity of their character they support it.
Is it consistent with the proper dignity and the manly character of a nation?
We entered into the solemnity of the occasion with proper dignity, and got up and shook hands.
If you cannot behave with proper dignity, then at least think of the rest of us.
He was a stickler for giving proper dignity to church offices.