lisp
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“Tho thsorry,” I sighed with a slight lisp from my new Invisaligns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
"But they're like so intense, so you're rocking with this today, and a lisp."
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025
I spent time with him, I didn't hear 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
The new injury endowed the big oaf with a disconcerting lisp.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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 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
Heck, most of the big-time lad actors stuttered and lisped their way to stardom.
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
Traditional elements of both bachata and música mexicana appear, as the duo touts their luxurious lifestyles over a lisping guiro and a rousing trumpet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
“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
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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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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