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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Savannah is direct, cut to the chase, no BS, while Shannon is hippy-dippy, wavy-gravy, all-over-the-map.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But Goodman’s story is far stranger, and more significant, than that of a dippy mystic or a metaphysical scam artist.
    Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Axton included lines about wine-drinking and lovemaking that give the song at least a little bit of an adult sensibility and kept it from seeming too dippy.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The writer Naomi Wolf has remained woo-ed to the gills while moving from somewhat dippy feminist to hard-right anti-vaccine activist.
    Ryan Cooper, The Week, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Titaníque is the kind of giddy, dippy, fan-friendly spectacle that invites you to arrive a glass-and-a-half deep, literally or spiritually.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The supporting players – including Steve Zahn as a hippie-dippy LA neighbor – are quirky enough to shoulder some of the load.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • That change — from playing a mocking hippie-dippy weatherman on variety shows to a more authentic comedian talking about power, language and human foibles — took its toll.
    Mark Kennedy, ajc, 20 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There’s no mockery of the hippie-dippy arts community, just a warm acknowledgment of the eccentricities of the mutually supportive, nonconformist environment.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
  • 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

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