lisp
Example Sentences
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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
One woman at a film magazine I’ll call Entertainment Twice-a‑Fortnight was particularly brutal, referring to me as “Mara Wilson, who lisped her way over‑fetchingly through Mrs Doubtfire and continues the tiresome act here.”
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2016
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
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
