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dopey

[doh-pee] / ˈdoʊ pi /


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As heroines Brenda and Cindy, respectively, Hall and Faris were daffy, dopey and committed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

I assume Vrabel thinks it’s a dopey move.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

His lead, Pattinson’s Mickey Barnes, is a dopey, instantly lovable voluntary “Expendable,” jettisoned into space to be a human guinea pig who will be pivotal in colonizing a faraway planet.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2025

Even when it gets dopey, “Manhunt” is still engrossing — fun, even.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

He nodded at the dopey who had been dragged out of the den.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

Why did John Krasinski’s character get progressively dopier until he became the kind of clueless dad most often seen in commercials asking his wife how to use a mop?

From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2019

"American Ultra" could be goofier and crazier, both smarter and dopier than it turned out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2015

With the ghost looming, the petty concerns of the local young-mom cadre look dopier than ever to Bridget, who gradually loses patience with the conventions that rule her narrow world.

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2014

The critic Glenn Kenny has posited that "Inception" is really a movie about video gaming, which certainly provides the inspiration for some of its dopier action sequences.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2010

Alice was also louder and more argumentative, and Norton was dopier, unlikely as that may sound.

From Time Magazine Archive

Charlotte Towner said of her American bully XL Coco: "She's just the sloppiest, dopiest dog I've ever owned. She's great with other people, her only downside is she gets excited when she sees people."

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2023

They’re the dopiest duo ever to have traveled to the past and the future, heaven and hell.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2019

In some respects, the parade is a thermometer calibrated to precisely read the temperature of popular culture at its dopiest.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 21, 2018

Enough time has elapsed for even the dopiest to see the threat.

From Economist ● Jan. 3, 2018

Say, that was the dopiest bunch of kids I ever saw.

From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson




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