American southerners speak in a drawling voice.
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Drawling
Synonyms for "drawling" (35 found)
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11 entriesdelivery stylelinguistic featurelinguistic styleliterary stylenarrative styleparalinguistic featurespeech actspeech styletoneverbal actwriting style
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8 entriesdrawn out syllableselongated vowelsironic drawllanguorous dialogueprolonged tempoprotracted sentencesarcastic paceslowed speech
Collocations
11 entriesdrawling articulationdrawling cadencedrawling deliverydrawling mannerdrawling speechdrawling tempodrawling voiceelongated vowelsmonotone speechslowed speechsouthern drawl
Inflections
4 entriesDerivations
3 entriesSample sentences
2 total sentences available.
[…] if I yawn over your imperfect sentences, your repeated phrases, your false pathos, your drawlings and denouncingsyour humming and hawing, your oh-ing and ah-ing, your black gloves and your white handkerchief.
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