dopey
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But Stokes' men have been careless, loose and downright dopey.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025
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
Emerson sometimes feels as if the Kings are testing him: “Can we make it so dopey that Emerson won’t do it? But I’ve defeated them.”
From New York Times ● May 20, 2024
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
Some dopey movie actor was standing near us, having a cigarette.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
What it does have time for often feels less than vital: earnest exposition, wall-rattling fisticuffs and comic asides that prove dopier, but also sweeter, than those glib Whedon one-liners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2021
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
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
Since the days of Frankie and Annette, low-budget filmmakers have understood that the dopiest stories sell, so long as the location's sunny and the characters sincere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2018
Say, that was the dopiest bunch of kids I ever saw.
From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
