dopey

Example Sentences

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A lot of geniuses argue the refs should all be replaced with sensor-seeking robots when these dopey droids can barely open a dishwasher.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

Here, with his dopey expressions fused to a satyr’s body, he makes you nervous the way Malcolm McDowell did after he was reformed in “A Clockwork Orange.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2023

"She was used to a dopey shire and was taken aback by these foals zooming around her."

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2023

That article was feckless and dopey, but if anything Andrew Prokop's effort in Vox to both-sides the ensuing controversy was somehow, and hilariously, worse.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2023

A dopey letter is still a dopey letter, no matter how you dress it up; and there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris