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
"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
Moore employs a subtle, impeccable lisp in Gracie’s voice; Portman studiously echoes it.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
I find myself telling her how Treelore never made below a B+ or that the new church deacon get on my nerves cause he lisp.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
“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
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
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
Still, Ball’s theory speaks to the persistent undervaluing of an legitimate artistic genre, one yet dwelling in the shadow of caped crusaders and lisping ducks.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2014
It was like a heavy shaking of talcum powder in the brain hearing all those mothers complimenting each other’s daughters and lisping back in good Castilian to the Sisters of the Merciful Mother.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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