How to Use dippy in a Sentence

dippy

adjective

• The movie almost makes the dippy TV show it is based on seem respectable by comparison.
  — Jon Niccum, kansascity.com, 23 May 2017
• Hempseed oil is known for its skin-soothing powers, but many of the best organic formulas still bear the scent of weed’s hippie-dippy past.
  — Meirav Devash, Allure, 31 Aug. 2017
• Holly is trying to sell June on giving birth to Hannah in some crunchy hippy-dippy birthing center.
  — Rena Gross, Billboard, 27 June 2018
• But could this be perceived as imposing my hippie-dippy ideals on them, or trying to guilt them into recycling?
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
• Even comedy stalwart Jennifer Coolidge, who features as a dippy employee in Mel and Mia’s store, can’t manage to elevate the turgid script.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2020
• The two-story market sells fruit, vegetables, dry goods, and meat on the first floor; the second floor has a hippy-dippy bent, with incense, henna tattoos, piercings, and woven backpacks.
  — Scarlett Lindeman, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2018
• Alan Ruck, 63, who plays the dippy eldest half brother, Connor Roy, nearly blew off his audition to take his son to a music class but ended up showing up at the last minute after insistent calls from his agent.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2019
• Some look pretty hippy-dippy today, but these works foreshadow how Mr. Haacke would conceive of art works as systems, shaped first by the artist’s invention, and then by external factors.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2019
• The weather offers excuses for many pleasures: rides in convertibles to the beach, a sticky dippy ice-cream cone, late nights, and that one last piña colada or Aperol spritz delivered poolside with a smile.
  — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2017
• Her pursuit of Theo drags her through a world of wannabes and hangers-on and jeopardizes her collaboration with a pop star (Alexandra Daddario) whose dippy facade doesn’t quite conceal her calculating nature.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
• The binary political stereotype of the liberal, hippy-dippy Californian often includes vegetarianism as a pejorative, but the religious aspect of occasional meat-free eating seems strangely distant from that conversation.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 11 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 2 Aug 2024