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
Moore employs a subtle, impeccable lisp in Gracie’s voice; Portman studiously echoes it.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
He had both a stammer and a lisp, and was set to reciting, “The Spanish ships I cannot see them, for they are not in sight” in order to overcome them.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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
‘Have I missed it?’ lisps Commodus, springing out of his chariot.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2016
A five-year-old is cute when he lisps and stutters.
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
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
Hermione had lisped and pranced and pirouetted through their childhoods, showing off at every available moment with no thought—so her scowling, silent older sister believed—for how ludicrous and desperate she appeared.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
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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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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