lisp
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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
As a result, Moore decided that Gracie needed a lisp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 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
Sasha could still effortlessly layer a lisp over a Russian accent when the cards required it.
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
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
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 PG-13 lyrics are lisped and gulped into sonic oatmeal.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2016
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
This pubescent Vance has been adorned with a rainbow propeller hat and a swirly lollipop, morphed into a patriotic Minion from Despicable Me, and rendered as lisping Hans Landa, the Nazi villain from Inglourious Basterds.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2025
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
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
Already there had crept into her speech a halting, lisping quality that, though I did not know it, was the shadow of her future.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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