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dopey

[doh-pee] / ˈdoʊ pi /


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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

I assume Vrabel thinks it’s a dopey move.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

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

"She was used to a dopey shire and was taken aback by these foals zooming around her."

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2023

Sometimes the effort of getting through each day left him feeling heavy and dopey by dinnertime.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli

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

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


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