dopey
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Grief tethers Supergirl to Ruthye, even though they disagree on how to handle it, and it also seems to repel her from Corenswet’s dopey, innocent Clark Kent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
I assume Vrabel thinks it’s a dopey move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
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
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
“Hey, don’t go dopey on me,” she said.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
"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
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 F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson
