How to Use dopey in a Sentence

dopey

adjective
Definition of dopeynext
Synonyms for dopeynext
  • There were no dopey-eyed guys, there was no wipe the sleep out of their eyes, any of that stuff.
    — USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The rest of us laugh with a bitter taste in our mouths: What a dopey waste of millions.
    — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Not to be a dopey romantic, but what the heck happened to the good old-fashioned hero?
    — Tiffany Lee Brown, WIRED, 14 Nov. 1997
  • The topic is hot, but the tone is all over the place and the dialogue is egregiously dopey.
    — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Mostly there’s a ton of smoke and some dopey (pun intended) laughs.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Where the smaller Pixel 2 had big, dopey bezels, the Pixel 3 has smaller ones.
    — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2018
  • Jason is the dopey dad on the sitcom of their life, despite not yet being a father.
    — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Like any dopey musical, it can be saved with a first-rate staging.
    — Mark Lowry, star-telegram.com, 7 June 2017
  • Calabro: That was the dopiest thing, blowing up the building but none of us getting hurt.
    — Craig Tomashoff, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2017
  • Two dopey dudes go back in time to fetch Beethoven, Napoleon and other biggies for a history project.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Some people do some dopey things, to be sure, and would continue to over the entire seven-season run of the show.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 19 July 2019
  • In my dresser there's a picture of me looking alarmingly dopey and scruffy and in need of a haircut.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2011
  • In the nineties, when the simpering, dopey Barney took over the world, children’s entertainment reached a new low.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 29 July 2016
  • In the third episode, the incredibly dopey P.E. teacher Andy Fairbell struggles up a rope, then falls from about 30 feet.
    — AJC.com, 3 Mar. 2016
  • This time around the dopey duo, again played by Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, have to come up with a song that will not just unite the world in peace, but save reality itself.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The three actors play dopey, dead-end hotel housekeepers always trying to come up with a big idea.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 21 Mar. 2018
  • But the story relies too much on stereotypes and dopey dialogue.
    — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 29 Jan. 2021
  • That his dopey country mouse of a cousin represents his best chance at companionship is the painful joke spun out until the end.
    — Yasmine Seale, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The film is a lovely, sincere and sometimes dopey confessional about fathers and sons, love and loss that takes the shape of a far out if deeply inward trip.
    — New York Times, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Najimy and Parker are also back as dopey Mary and ditzy Sarah, respectively, who live to sniff out children and lure them to a tasty death.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Perhaps the most cringe-worthy came from Martine Rose: done in khaki for that dopey tourist vibe, complete with large cargo pockets that spanned the whole thigh.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 20 June 2017
  • A lot of people think of cows as these dopey dull-witted meat factories unto themselves.
    — Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Like a dopey Bond villain, Sabrina tells the Void her plan before enacting it.
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2021
  • A staple of the '80s, two dopey bros (hi, young Keanu Reeves) used a time machine to prepare for their history presentation.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Seven okay-at-best movies, eight patchy shows, two endearingly dopey specials: The megafranchise's fourth phase was its biggest and worst.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Producers had Colton appear in a too-tight striped polo, sporting a faraway and slightly dopey smile.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 20 July 2021
  • Leitch produced the film, which was a passable Netflix throwaway hampered by dopey B-movie conventions.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Blomkamp’s commentary on the class struggle is comically obvious and rather dopey, and the story keeps jumping all over the place.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 30 July 2021
  • He is played with nerdy conviction by Bob Murrell, who captures his shy longing for Audrey, the dopey but endearing blonde with bad taste in men.
    — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 8 May 2018
  • My liked videos on TikTok are dotted with clips like this puny Golden Retriever and this dopey terrier.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Sep. 2020

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