lisping

• “A post criticizing Barney Frank's views on a Supreme Court opinion yields comments calling him a "lisping" "bitter queen.”

  Barney Frank: Justice Scalia "makes it very clear that he's angry, frankly, about the existence of gay people."

• “‘One-and-ninepence, sir, or your things will be taken away from you!’ he said, in a kind of lisping tone, coming yet nearer to me.”

  Lavengro

• “Fletcher would reserve the word "stammering" for mispronunciation or incorrect speech, this stutter being anatomical (due to malformation of one or more organs of articulation) or developmental (due to incorrect functioning of the organs of articulation resulting in certain cases of immaturity, such as lisping).”

  The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

• “One-and-ninepence, sir, or your things will be taken away from you!' he said, in a kind of lisping tone, coming yet nearer to me.”

  Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

• “One-and-ninepence, sir, or your things will be taken away from you!" he said, in a kind of lisping tone, coming yet nearer to me.”

  Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

• “They were expected to adhere to “Ivy League fashion”; no “swishing” and no “bottled-in-blond men, limp wrists and lisping” were permitted.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “The samples of his verse that Mr. Hollinghurst invents are perfectly pitched to be good but not great: "The spinney where the lisping larches / Kiss overhead in silver arches / And in their shadows lovers too / Might kiss and tell their secrets through," is a typical jingling passage.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The (Private) Lives of the Poets

• “July 17, 2009 at 11: 17 AM omg ... i'm totally having a retroactive 4th grade crush on your lisping, swooning self, Rich!”

  I was on TV

• “The happy reunion is cut short, however, by the tablet-related but more or less unexplained arrival of a party-pooping pharaoh by the name of Kahmunrah and played by a lisping Hank Azaria.”

  Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat

• “Monty Python's "Life of Brian," for example, is delightfully silly, with its speech-impeded Pontius Pilate and his lisping friend.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Cameron's Comedy Economics

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