How to Use dopey in a Sentence

dopey

adjective

• I'm still a little dopey from the painkillers.
• After being up all night I was pretty dopey at work.
• The men are dopey and destructive; the women clever and thwarted, with all the good lines and the truly depressing fates.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024