Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences
with despotic below are plain text.
How to pronounce despotic
“despotic” pronunciation in British, American and Australian English
Listen to despotic in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“despotic” in real sentences
126 clips in the index · 6 American · 8 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
even though he criticized despotic rule.
CrashCourse
-
uh uh that many still characterize as despotic.
Oxford Union
-
And as a professor, he would criticize the despotic regime at the time.
TED
-
Today, Eritrea has a despotic government and its people are mired in abject poverty.
The Economist
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of despotic. 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.