dopiness
- a word derived from dopey.
Example Sentences
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And yet, its governor’s race keeps finding its way into our national politics newsletter, because we can’t believe the dopiness we continue to see.
From Slate ● May 16, 2026
The show is both genuinely funny and unabashedly silly, and director and choreographer Josh Rhodes has his hands full reining in some of the sitcom dopiness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
The story is after all set in the fictional Cob County, where the locals, long isolated from the rest of the world by a wall of “cornrows,” live in the perfect “hominy” of entrenched dopiness.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
“Singleton takes the aggressive, one-note conflicts of the action genre and builds whole networks of resentment out of them. This lends the picture a weird authenticity, despite the general dopiness of the plot.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2021
He is weirdly unable here to suggest the character’s dopiness without winking at the audience.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2018
