lisp
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She had a slight lisp, and I remember thinking how specific her voice felt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
They were specifically made to preserve his natural lisp and so important he carried two sets with him at all times.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2024
When I was a kid, I started doing elocution lessons because I had a really bad lisp.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
Moore employs a subtle, impeccable lisp in Gracie’s voice; Portman studiously echoes it.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
He noticed that Dana’s lisp had disappeared, along with the swelling in his upper lip.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
“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
He lisps a little, because he has just two teeth left.
From US News ● May 3, 2015
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
One of the little girls handed her a copy to inscribe and lisped her name.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 2, 2017
One woman at a film magazine I’ll call Entertainment Twice-a‑Fortnight was particularly brutal, referring to me as “Mara Wilson, who lisped her way over‑fetchingly through Mrs Doubtfire and continues the tiresome act here.”
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2016
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
“Mamma dear,” lisped the little girl, “baby ood have put hith eyeth out.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Many will spot the show’s lisping child as Winthrop from “The Music Man”; fewer may recognize the Schmigadoonean exclamation “yee honk” as joining two oaths from that play, “yee gods” and “great honk.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 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
In another era, Mr. Wilder’s Harpo Marx-like mop of golden hair, his slight physique and his soft, almost lisping voice might have hindered a career as a leading man.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2016
Without the lisping charm of Asher Keddie's Ita, Paper Giants' second – and far less historically compelling – peek into the world of female-led publishing is not much to look at.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2013
At three years of age, he prattles like my father did, but I attend to every lisping word he speaks.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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