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.
  • 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
  • Like any dopey musical, it can be saved with a first-rate staging.
    — Mark Lowry, star-telegram.com, 7 June 2017
  • This shy, dopey, lovesick kid should not be responsible for a firearm.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Mostly there’s a ton of smoke and some dopey (pun intended) laughs.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Not to be a dopey romantic, but what the heck happened to the good old-fashioned hero?
    — Tiffany Lee Brown, WIRED, 14 Nov. 1997
  • 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
  • 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
  • Austen wrings a great deal of humor from Lady Bertram’s dopey languor.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
  • To those who dismissed the film as simplistic and dopey, well, that was part of its eternal appeal.
    — Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
  • But the story relies too much on stereotypes and dopey dialogue.
    — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 29 Jan. 2021
  • Cranston will also reprise his role as Hal, Malcolm's sweet, dopey dad, in the revival.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • A lot of people think of cows as these dopey dull-witted meat factories unto themselves.
    — Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 22 Nov. 2022
  • But dopey dialogue and frat-boy humor deflate the pure thrill of its excellent gore.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The three actors play dopey, dead-end hotel housekeepers always trying to come up with a big idea.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 21 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Originally, the dopey jock role had been filled by actor Steven Ford.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
  • Not the concept of being dopey, mind you, but the actual character.
    — Josh Spiegel, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Where the smaller Pixel 2 had big, dopey bezels, the Pixel 3 has smaller ones.
    — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2018
  • Somehow this dopey guy who makes music for people who don’t ever think about music secured himself a decades-long career.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Producers had Colton appear in a too-tight striped polo, sporting a faraway and slightly dopey smile.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 20 July 2021
  • The musicians, meeting for the first time but immediately in sync, cast dopey, love-at-first-sight grins at each other.
    — Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The closest thing to a lull in the ceaseless stream of dopey humor is the songs, which can be charming but generally don’t try to be amusing at all.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Like a dopey Bond villain, Sabrina tells the Void her plan before enacting it.
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Blomkamp’s commentary on the class struggle is comically obvious and rather dopey, and the story keeps jumping all over the place.
    — Will Leitch, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2024

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