Lisping

A post criticizing Barney Frank's views on a Supreme Court opinion yields comments calling him a "lisping" "bitter queen." ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

‘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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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). ❋ Unknown (1916)

"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. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

'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. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

They were expected to adhere to “Ivy League fashion”; no “swishing” and no “bottled-in-blond men, limp wrists and lisping” were permitted. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

The skin broke on her face, she felt the lisping of blood from the ends. ❋ Ramola D (2011)

These 8-year-olds, be it known, don't have lisping voices and Lord Fauntleroy curls: they have five-o'clock shadow, a strong sense of their due entitlements according to the current trick/treat exchange rate and a lovingly accumulated arsenal of eggs, fireworks and plastic bags full of dog doo with which to play jocular tricks on spoilsport adults who won't join in with the spirit of Halloween. ❋ Sam Leith (2011)

He is almost wailing, banshee-like, lisping a little. ❋ Roberta Lawson (2010)

Charles Way's adaptation daringly restructures Dickens's plot, yet sticks to the motto of his lisping ringmaster Mr Sleary: "People mutht be amuthed." ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Adam Kirsch (2011)

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

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Monty Python's "Life of Brian," for example, is delightfully silly, with its speech-impeded Pontius Pilate and his lisping friend. ❋ Jamie Whyte (2011)

This body, wholly holy, sings as best it can, lisping the mantra "sole." ❋ Larissa Shmailo (2012)