How to pronounce imperfectly

Listen to imperfectly 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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“imperfectly” in real sentences

66 clips in the index · 7 American · 8 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. we are all beautifully, imperfectly, inconveniently human.

    TED · hear it here

  2. And here are two babies joined together because they've imperfectly separated.

    The Royal Institution · hear it here

  3. to achieve some form of peace, even if imperfectly, even if unsuccessfully.

    Oxford Union · hear it here

  4. completely imperfectly um and uh but america hadn't so elizabeth became

    British Library · hear it here

Why real speech

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