(v. i.) To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.
(n.) A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think, in all honestly, if I could be Bradley Whitford I would be very, very happy.” He becomes almost drawlingly dreamy, rolling his “r”s as he leans against the warm oolite cliffs of this Jurassic Coast, until rudely interrupted by me, asking whether there’s talk of a Broadchurch 3 .
(2) As the Big Dog waltzed through a thicket of policy points, dropping drawl-inflected catchphrases, the teleprompter stuttered.
(3) "We have hit upon things here that really do matter – that haven't been given due consideration," he would bark in his distinctive, rapid-fire baritone southern drawl.
(4) Using a simple line-up of strummed guitar, bass and drums, he drawled, and then sang, his way through a story about a train driver fooling the inspector on a toll gate outside New Orleans.
(5) "It's not even lack of progress," she says in her low, ironic drawl, "it's a downward slide towards the apocalypse.
(6) Their hard, stuttering tone is a long way from Gucci's Atlanta drawl, but the juxtaposition is electric – a kind of east London crunk.
(7) Theorizing, research and speculation reached a fever pitch, and then a minor character, last seen cutting grass way back in episode three, drawled “My family’s been here a long, lo-ong, time,” and more appeared.
(8) Abramson has one of the thickest New York accents you'll ever hear, a nasal drawl in which the vowels are stretched to breaking point like an elastic band.
(9) "Of course I'd like to sit around and chat, but someone's listening in," drawls Yorke.
(10) She has played Alien: Isolation, of course ("The flame-thrower is very good," she drawls) and is intrigued by the immersive story-telling possibilities of the medium.
(11) A pin is fine but what woman doesn’t love a necklace?” she said, in a faint Texan drawl.
(12) She recalls one lunch with a literary editor of the Times who "got there and said [she puts on a patrician drawl]: 'I told all the girls in the office I'm going out with a Virago today!'
(13) One might expect, however, that after the death of his wife and his own health scare, Clifford would have a new perspective on life, but it is a suggestion he readily bats away: "Naaaah," he drawls, "not at all.
(14) I suspect that like many who owed their careers to Lord Beaverbrook, Alex had picked up a hint of the baron's stately drawl.
(15) Frost's voice never ceased to intrigue: he developed something called the Frost Drawl, a way of speaking that became slower and whose clarity diminished as it extended its global reach.
(16) "Old fogeys like me don't email, darlin'," he drawls at the cattle baron's ball, just in case we missed the point.
(17) Self-deprecating An Arkansas native, Engskov speaks with the same southern drawl as Clinton, and does a smooth line in self-deprecation that belies his intelligence: "I'm from Arkansas so it takes me a little time to catch up," he says at one point.
(18) This is all delivered in her rich, husky 60-a-day drawl, although it turns out the 60 a day has just become four a day after a week-long stay in a health farm, and "you'll have to forgive me because I only got back last night and I'm feeling quite peculiar".
(19) 'I wondered why would someone make such a radical change in their lives if they were basically a good person, a non-criminal' Gilligan, who is 45 but speaks with an avuncular southern drawl that makes him sound 20 years older, made his name working on The X Files .
(20) He even had a catchphrase of sorts, his "hello, good evening and welcome" drawled by mimics on both sides of the Atlantic.
Lisp
Definition:
(v. i.) To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.
(v. i.) To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.
(v. i.) To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid.
(v. t.) To pronounce with a lisp.
(v. t.) To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike language.
(v. t.) To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason.
(n.) The habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) I watched some boxing last night," he replies in his faint, lisping voice.
(2) He feels self-conscious about the way he looks and about the slight lisp the gap in his teeth produces.
(3) One group performed the task after listening to a tape recording of a young woman reading contextual material with a simulated lateral lisp.
(4) These data indicate that the lateral lisp is probably a speech defect and suggest that the practice of eliminating school speech services for children whose only speech difference is a lateral lisp should be reconsidered.
(5) Results indicated that both groups of tongue thrusters with and without interdental lisp scored significantly more poorly than did normal children (t = 4.68, P less than .001; t = 5.00, P less than .001), respectively.
(6) The algorithm can be implemented using a language such as C, PASCAL or LISP and runs on small machines.
(7) Trees and recursivity allow a very efficient codification into LISP or PROLOG.
(8) No significant differences in LMS between males and females with lisped speech, or between normal speaking males and females were found to exist at 5 age levels.
(9) In the LISP technique, a plateau of maximum Polybrene activity was found.
(10) In the trailer to a fraught, much-delayed documentary about MIA, leaked this summer by its director, Steve Loveridge, we see footage of a younger, lisping Maya talking to a camcorder.
(11) It is a microcomputer-based decision support system written in LISP and utilizes a hybrid frame and rule architecture.
(12) The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between lingual muscular strength (LMS) and articulatory proficiency in 45 normal and 45 lisping speakers utilizing a Lingual Force Scale designed specifically for this investigation.
(13) After Flight Of The Conchords, she played Paul Rudd 's crudely ambitious assistant in the Steve Carell comedy Dinner For Schmucks and has just voiced characters for Toy Story 3 and the next Shrek movie (one in the eye for the high-school voice coach who said to her, "Oh my God, you have a terrible lisp!").
(14) Several lines of evidence suggested that IgD-secreting cells could not be generated from LISP lymphocytes in vitro.
(15) This was merged with Reddit, and Reddit was rewritten from the Lisp programming language into Python, using Swartz's web.py framework.
(16) Human helminths were not recovered from Lispe leucospila (Wiedemann), Lucilia cuprina (Wiedemann) or the housefly Musca domestica L. In an urban slum area of Kuala Lumpur city, filariform larvae identified as the hookworm Necator americanus (Stiles) occurred in the intestines of the face-fly Musca sorbens Wiedemann (22 larvae per 100 flies) and of Chrysomya megacephala (4.5 larvae per 100 flies).
(17) In order to study the dynamics of protein and nucleic acid conformations, a molecular folding-unfolding system (FUS written in Lisp) has been developed.
(18) SENEX is being developed through object-oriented programming in a portable programming environment supported by COMMON LISP and the COMMON LISP INTERFACE MANAGER.
(19) This system encodes the input findings into the network expressions, which are represented as the list form in the LISP computer language.
(20) A prototype expert system called CAREPLAN, developed for use in an obstetrical environment, was built using Personal Consultant Plus, a software tool based on the LISP language.