Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a lisping manner; with a lisp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With a lisp; in a lisping manner.
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- adverb In a
lisping manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with a lisp
Etymologies
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Examples
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The lively girl sprang up, discarded the cigarette, adjusted an imaginary train, and spoke lispingly in a society manner much more moderate and convincing than that with which she had favored the retiring Cassidy.
Within the Law 1913
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Raffold's protest came lispingly through the quiet room.
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The lively girl sprang up, discarded the cigarette, adjusted an imaginary train, and spoke lispingly in a society manner much more moderate and convincing than that with which she had favored the retiring Cassidy.
Within the Law Bayard Veiller 1906
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He had scant care for the authority of "Gad-ish," as Gladys loved for him lispingly to call her.
The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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"How much is the debt," asked Van Dorn, lispingly.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
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Sometimes he joined in a conversation which interested him and, regardless of whether any "gentlemen of the embassy" were present or not, lispingly expressed his views, which were sometimes not at all in accord with the accepted tone of the moment.
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869
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That's funny; 'and then he laughs, and baby laughs, and says after him, lispingly,' Danma Detchen, that's funny. '
Tracy Park Mary Jane Holmes 1866
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O how lispingly and imperfectly do we perform the close of this petition: As we forgive them that trespass against us.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863
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Unlike yourself, he flourishes no perfumed cambric before proceeding, nor does he fold together two soft, white hands with languid ease and grace; but humbly kneeling upon the bare, uncarpeted floor, instead of lispingly reciting a few chaste sentences to win the applause of fashionable ladies and attar-scented dilettanti, he prays to Our Father in
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The gag, as always, is that he's supposedly unaware that his lispingly seductive jazz-club voice is so at odds with his appearance; and here he went through two of his old standards - My Room and the
Chortle News RSS 2009
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