dopey
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It’s bad enough that Lisa has to deal with Dan’s insecurity — now she’s got to tangle with some dopey crooks?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
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
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
Peter waved and smiled, trying to act dopey, and changed direction.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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
