How to pronounce smacks
Listen to smacks 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.
“smacks” in real sentences
105 clips in the index · 8 American · 36 British · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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hate it smacks of hate it smacks of callousness it smacks of psychopathy to a degree
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
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This smacks of corruption.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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It's smacks of hypocrisy.
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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It's smacks of greed, entitlement, and cruelty.
The School of Life · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of smacks. 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.