How to pronounce dreadful
Listen to dreadful 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.
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“dreadful” in real sentences
969 clips in the index · 16 American · 429 British · 1 Australian · 6 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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dreadful coronavirus situation.
UK Parliament · hear it here
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of this dreadful pandemic
British Library · hear it here
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dreadful word—holistic manner.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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are allowed if somebody commits a dreadful dreadful heinous crime we are allowed to
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of dreadful. 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.