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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
lisp .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Besides, in these days of universal knowledge, when we hear scientific terms lisped by infant lips, it is refreshing to see an example of fine old-fashioned ignorance.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
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Josephine greatly; but the child was growing larger, an indiscreet word lisped by him, a childish remembrance, the least thing, might offend
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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Madame de Montesquieu's visits were made only at long intervals, which distressed Josephine greatly; but the child was growing larger, an indiscreet word lisped by him, a childish remembrance, the least thing, might offend Marie Louise, who feared Josephine.
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Josephine greatly; but the child was growing larger, an indiscreet word lisped by him, a childish remembrance, the least thing, might offend
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Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth "lisped" in novelettes, as Pope said he "lisped in numbers."
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"lisped" no longer, but babbled as they leapt, like mountain streams, exposing their rocky bed.
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I thought lisped cees were Castilian, not Catalonian.
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Yes I, whose lips had never lisped the word "king," remembered that I had once been the son of a king.
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"Third floor," lisped a young man seated at a table.
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His lisped speech is mocked, along with his sexuality, by crass Italian television comedians.
Nichi Vendola, a gay, ex-communist governor, becomes the unlikely rival to Italy's Berlusconi
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