lisp

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

Moore employs a subtle, impeccable lisp in Gracie’s voice; Portman studiously echoes it.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

Guilhem Gallart used to speak with a thick, southern French accent, his voice deep and slightly nasal, topped by a faint lisp.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

It makes him seem even more intense than he already is, with his burning eyes, rapid-fire clipped speech, and slight lisp.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

“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

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 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

“I’m helping my brother,” he proudly lisped, staring at his sibling, Abdul-Rahman, 13, in adoration.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2015

Arya thought it was funny the way Vargo Hoat lisped and slobbered, but she knew better than to laugh.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

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

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

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