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." Ann Althouse 2009

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." 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.

Lavengro 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).

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 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.

Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) 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.

Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest 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.

Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest 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.

Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest 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.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

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 (Private) Lives of the Poets Adam Kirsch 2011