lisp
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From this notebook page, handwritten by Martin McDonagh while sitting poolside in Los Angeles, the lisp line went straight into the mouth of John Malkovich in the new film Wild Horse Nine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
The childhood lisp I thought I’d outgrown came roaring back like it had been waiting in the wings.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2025
“Tho thsorry,” I sighed with a slight lisp from my new Invisaligns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
"But they're like so intense, so you're rocking with this today, and a lisp."
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025
There was a card that required you to talk in a Russian accent, a card that required you to lisp, and a card that required you to lisp while talking in a Russian accent.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
“A lot of people who have lisps are not children — they simply have a speech thing,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
They are two different entities that operate as one, babbling to each other as pint-size radio announcers with slight lisps.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
Her dad also lisps very slightly on “S” sounds but it’s not as pronounced.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2021
‘Have I missed it?’ lisps Commodus, springing out of his chariot.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2016
He has red hair that stands up at the top like Woody Woodpecker’s, and he lisps.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
His voice, slightly lisped, pinballs from story to story, often landing back at the place he started.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2022
Alone in the room, I look at him: his quizzical face, problem skin, lisped mouth; his long body, a still hyphen.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2019
One of the little girls handed her a copy to inscribe and lisped her name.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 2, 2017
The man will go to his grave without an acting Oscar because we are all morons and monsters. From the lisped villain of Kingsman to the swaggering emcee of Chi-raq and then—finally—his career-topping role as Maj.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2016
The boat creaked, the waves lisped, the wind hissed a little on the white sail.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
And at last, we get the spectacle of Mullally unleashed as the apparently dotty, sort-of wheelchair-bound mom, lisping her way to glory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
“That was my intention — I’m a little prec-iousss about that,” he says, laughing as he drops a quick lisping impression of Gollum.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021
He gave each character such a unique voice and accent that I can still hear his lisping version of Gollum in Tolkien’s trilogy.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2019
This bizarre service has lisping jazz-pixie Paloma Faith reading Peter Rabbit stories in a coochie-coo voice, or singing Bye Baby Bunting, or making a shushing noise at you.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2018
“He’s just like Homer,” I remember toothless Poppy lisping to Mom while I squirmed.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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