Lisping

"Lisping" in a Sentence (2 examples)

He was singularly taciturn, lisping thickly when he did talk, and stuttering and hesitating in his speech, as though his words moved faster than his mind could follow.

Even the technical terms of abstruse science have been allowed to mingle with the lispings of the nursery.

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