How to pronounce badly
Listen to badly in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“badly” in real sentences
993 clips in the index · 165 American · 828 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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Hezbollah is badly degraded.
State Department · watch from 5:01 · hear it here
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they were badly mistaken.
UK Parliament · watch from 16:28 · hear it here
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are underperforming so badly.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 154:59 · hear it here
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also misleading us badly.
NIH · watch from 12:11 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of badly. 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.