[
UK
/dˈəʊpi/
]
[ US /ˈdoʊpi/ ]
[ US /ˈdoʊpi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having or revealing stupidity
some fool idea about rewriting authors' books
a dopey answer
a dopey kid
ridiculous anserine behavior
How To Use dopey In A Sentence
- I was feeling sick, and dopey, from the cigarette, from lack of sleep, or from not being able to see the road ahead.
- Relief is possible without having to resort to the conventional drugs that make you feel dopey. The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
- Midnight came and went and suddenly it was 3.00 am, I'd drunk a shedload of Guinness, smoked a fair few fags and was starting to feel dopey.
- ‘At the time it probably was a dopey thing to do,’ she admits cheerfully.
- a dopey answer
- The dopey scene, in which her lady-in-waiting, Alice, teaches her English, has been powerfully reinterpreted, with Katherine using her newly acquired vocabulary to taunt her guards.
- What more can you say about a gangsta rap superstar who spits, deadpan: ‘Hokey pokey dopey lokey okey dokey’?
- She is also smartish, though not book-smart, and pretty funny in a dopey hayseed sort of way. Michael Conniff: Is Sarah Palin Hot?
- The song is pretty good, until the middle, which has this dopey spoken/sung part that's very clumsy.
- One former reporter recalls an incident when the senior magistrate of the area was sitting and a particularly dopey defendant was in the dock for a motoring offence.