dopey
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The dope is dopey, and it’s unfortunately only a foray into mushier territory.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Or do we just revert to whining about our dopey NFL fantasy teams?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
As heroines Brenda and Cindy, respectively, Hall and Faris were daffy, dopey and committed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
But Stokes' men have been careless, loose and downright dopey.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025
I reread her message several times, grinning like a dopey schoolboy.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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
The local small fry rarely earn a second glance — Bagel the Chiweenie with her “redrum” bark, for example. But larger, dopier dogs set her off.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2016
"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
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
“The Secret: Dare to Dream,” a romantic drama about the power of magical thinking, may not be the worst movie of 2020, but it has to be the dopiest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2020
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
Say, that was the dopiest bunch of kids I ever saw.
From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson
