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Answer for the clue "Difficulty with speech, failing Turing test? ", 10 letters:
stuttering

Word definitions for stuttering in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Stuttering or stammering ( alalia syllabaris , alalia literalis or anarthria literalis ) is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases as well as involuntary ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. unable to speak freely and easily [syn: stammering(a) , stuttering(a) ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stuttering \Stut"ter*ing\, a. Apt to stutter; hesitating; stammering. -- Stut"ter*ing*ly , adv.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 That stutters. 2 (context figuratively English) hesitant. n. 1 A speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and by involuntary silent pauses or blocks in ...

Usage examples of stuttering.

The men stood again and pulled their triggers, so that a stuttering mistimed volley flamed in the dusk.

Was she really rising now, with weak legs and empty contracting stomach and stuttering heart, and moving along the pew to take her position in the center of the aisle, and setting out her reasons, her just causes, in a defiant untrembling voice as she advanced in her cape and headdress, like a bride of Christ, toward the altar, toward the openmouthed vicar who had never before in his long career been interrupted, toward the congregation of twisted necks, and the half-turned white-faced couple?

I set out well pleased with the assistance the stuttering Lambert had given me, and by noon I was at Riga.

Thick, knotted smoke trailed in a stuttering plume from his starboard repulsor engine.

For one heart-stopping moment I thought they were all dead or dying, mown down in swathes by that stuttering machine gun, then I saw mr.

Nor did she miss the hesitation among the other Banders, the glances, the stuttering lips as one or another of them tried to think of something to say.

And so, Jim, the retraining of left-handed children to become right-handed -- in complete contradiction to the orders the poor kids' brains are issuing to their muscles -- badly bollixes up their central nervous systems, and, among other bad outcomes, is the direct and only cause of habitual stuttering.

In spite of his lavish praise for Yevir, Capril had flushed when she’d asked him about this new vedek’s history…and had then stumbled over her title, stuttering out the word “kai” as though it were poison.

By the firelight, Murdock thought he could see the elongated shapes of bombs tumbling off the aircraft's wing racks, and a moment later, he heard the popcorn stuttering of clusterbomb bomblets detonating along the main highway.

We can realign-"The coaxial gun of the lead BMP opened fire, the stuttering yellow muzzle flash stabbing out of the night.

At once they heard the sharp crack of the rifles out front, then the stuttering sound of a Chinese burp gun.

That demanded dozens of mechs supervising the mining and smelting of iron, minirobots to toil beside the endless conveyor belts, subroutines and expert programs to catch every snag, each hitch in the unending stuttering fever of the Nudge.

I can assure you, my outraged young friend' - the old man's knowing, disdainful eyes shone even more effervescently as Nately's stuttering dismay increased - 'that you and your country will have a no more loyal partisan in Italy than me - but only as long as you remain in Italy.

He was stuttering and I began to freak out, the way you do when you pass a customs guard at a border, even though you're not hiding anything.

The stuttering roar of an occasional horseless carriage mingled with the clop of hooves, and the jarring of iron-rimmed wagon wheels on the uneven street.