How to pronounce bad
Listen to bad in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“bad” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 1000 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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bad paper discharges and bad conduct discharges.
Census Bureau · watch from 35:07 · hear it here
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Not bad, not bad. Are you done?
USDepartmentofLabor · watch from 0:40 · hear it here
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a bad 254 like bad -- classification, right?
National Archives · watch from 55:13 · hear it here
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bad for the environment and bad for devolution.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 24:47 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of bad. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.