Adjective, : It was rather dopey of him to lock himself out. From Dictionary.com.
Language gets strained to breaking point: incompetent cockiness becomes "enormous enthusiasm," dopiness "diligence" and a complete absence of initiative or spark "fitting in well with the team.". From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Why -- another question, talking about dopiness at high levels. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2005] Reference
He legimately enjoys Rockstar: INXS and finds the dopiness of the contestants part of their charm. From Wordnik.com. [Clambake Episode for August 30, 2005] Reference
As you can see, there is still some of the naivety and dopiness that fans have come to expect and love from Goku. From Wordnik.com. [Another Horrible Trailer for Fox's Dragonball Evolution - Updated! « FirstShowing.net] Reference
The dopiness of so-called ecotainment—environmentally virtuous entertainment—rises in direct proportion to its message-mongering. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Brown on the Looming Deluge of Eco-Disaster Flicks] Reference
They are mixing in a good deal of insanity, racism, and just plain dopiness into what they're saying, thereby poisoning the well Oh noes!. From Wordnik.com. [9/11 and the SPP] Reference
It's also worth mentioning, however, from the poll worker's perch, a lot of dopiness witnessed that I am sure carries over into electoral decision-making. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Parent: Fox News and Forgotten Addresses: A Day In the Life of a CA Poll Worker] Reference
Update: Because reading my blog is just as exciting as watching cable news and getting the latest information about celebrity diets, divorces, and dopiness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
My guess is that Obama, simply by pointing out the dopiness of the questions in the first half of the debate, probably emerged from this better than Clinton did. From Wordnik.com. [A Lousy Debate…plus Latest Column - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference
There is more reason to think the Obamans — for all their dreamy dopiness — are more likely to get what he seems to promise: a turn of the historical page and at least a little racial healing. From Wordnik.com. ["The battle for the Democratic Party is so bitter because it is a battle over culture."] Reference
And while practically everyone I know cried during the opening montage of Up that wordlessly summarized the love, growth and lingering regrets of a long marriage, no one talked much about the rest of the film save for the spot-on dopiness of the talking golden retriever character, Dug. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Toy Story 3] Reference
At other moments, Hogan drops the dopiness and actually finds some empathy and humor. From Wordnik.com. [Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews] Reference
New Year's resolutions or toothache; or, come to that, "the fanatical dopiness of our times". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
What an odd mixture of try-anything demonetization, paranoiac fantasy, and plain, simple dopiness. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
As an ex-war buddy and comrade in carving, the hulking actor wins us over with his occasional gosh-darn dopiness. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
Later, she emails to clarify what she describes as her '' late-afternoon dopiness '' on this subject: '' I may have contradicted myself. From Wordnik.com. [The Age News Headlines] Reference
When you announce to them that they are your "co-partners" in this grand building, the bricks don't scoff at the smug dopiness of such piffle. From Wordnik.com. [Beachwood Reporter] Reference
For those of you who have somehow lived your lives this is "Wig-Wam Bam," a track whose magnificent dopiness had eluded me until this past winter. From Wordnik.com. [Faith and Fear in Flushing] Reference
On matters of the financial crisis, though, we are doomed if we can't get past the evasive dopiness of citing nameless players of whom there are apparently "plenty.". From Wordnik.com. [Fool.com: The Motley Fool] Reference
Gail, a fellow volunteer with a thick Carolina accent, knocked the young Sara off her feet, and Felder comically impersonates the slack-jawed dopiness that often accompanies such an infatuation. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore City Paper] Reference
I know, I know, I'm hoping that people who love to hear themselves talk will realize their irrelevance and dopiness and maybe realize that they should devote their hours to helping people instead of talking out of their collective Twitterholes. From Wordnik.com. [Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip] Reference
Names That Spell almost thoroughly fun, and even when the guitar slips into jam-band territory or the lyrics dip into dopiness, the tunes are redeemed by coherent songwriting and the timely use of earthy sax, bold trumpet, and bits of piano that remind me of. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Only in the good old USA could such contradictory, congenital dopiness be the basis for a national arrogance that makes Americans not only believe that they are a "shining city on a hill," a "beacon of hope to the world," the "greatest country ever to do ... well, anything" and the nation others love to hate because of their alleged "freedom.". From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
It’s clear he didn’t pay attention in his university business classes, so his dopiness doesn’t actually understand fundamental economic theory … Let alone personal money management – other than to follow the strategy of the LeoStrauss NeoCons to ‘bankrupt the country and throw the baby out with the bathwater to prevent future generations of liberals from being able to institute federal social programs’ – I believe that’s the correct quote …. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Livingston: The Deficit is All Clinton’s Fault] Reference
But 'dreamy dopiness'?. From Wordnik.com. ["The battle for the Democratic Party is so bitter because it is a battle over culture."] Reference
But it's just out of dopiness. From Wordnik.com. [Edmonton Sun] Reference
But you are missing some good dopiness. From Wordnik.com. [SacBee -- Latest News] Reference
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