lisp
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"But they're like so intense, so you're rocking with this today, and a lisp."
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025
Since you brought up the Elon Musk interview, people have been saying that Trump sounded like he was slurring his words a little bit, maybe like he had a lisp.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2024
As a result, Moore decided that Gracie needed a lisp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 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
Her endearing lisp tore into me like a dull saw.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
“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
Did they hope that by eliminating our lisps, they might set us on a different path, or were they trying to prepare us for future stage and choral careers?
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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
The PG-13 lyrics are lisped and gulped into sonic oatmeal.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2016
“I’m helping my brother,” he proudly lisped, staring at his sibling, Abdul-Rahman, 13, in adoration.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2015
His teeth were already grinning from the glass of water next to his bedside lamp, so he lisped when he said, "Eh-speech, eh-speech!"
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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
A short dark man with a high lisping voice, named Mr. Manzi, stood in front of the class in a tight blue suit holding a little wooden ball.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Vocabulary lists containing lisp
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