lisp
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And her voice ended up even having a little bit of a lisp at times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
I spent time with him, I didn't hear a lisp.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2024
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
“Here’s what’s going to happen,” Buddy Ray said to me, again his voice a quiet lisp.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
And even my dialect coach was really anti- the idea for a while because it was creating lisps in my mouth, which wasn’t right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 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
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
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
“God’s wounds,” she cried with lisping, spittle-spraying laughter, “it’s the Bear set loose among us again.”
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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