dopey
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Or do we just revert to whining about our dopey NFL fantasy teams?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
“It’s just like your dopey friend,” Richeson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025
Even when it gets dopey, “Manhunt” is still engrossing — fun, even.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
"She was used to a dopey shire and was taken aback by these foals zooming around her."
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2023
That sort of wiped the dopey smile off my face.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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
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
