nasality
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The uninterrupted format may have frayed his voice, and a stubborn nasality crept into his otherwise handsome, hearty sound, but the program nevertheless accumulated in power.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
He added, “It definitely does have some of the Sinatra characteristics, but there’s a little nasality in there, and it’s when the singer becomes nasal that I start to hear that it’s not Frank.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2020
It is also a pleasure to hear Mr. Rickman pronounce “semicolon” with a pinching nasality that turns a punctuation mark into a symptom of terminal constipation.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2011
Yet the two are instantly doing dueling Michael Caines: Coogan emphasizing Caine's nasality, Brydon the lower, slower diction that comes from decades of "all the cigars and brandy."
From Time ● Jun. 10, 2011
A very disagreeable and common fault is nasality, or "talking through the nose."
From Talks on Talking by Grenville Kleiser
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