How to pronounce wasteful
Listen to wasteful 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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“wasteful” in real sentences
283 clips in the index · 36 American · 89 British · 10 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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rounds are just wasteful.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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them is kind of wasteful.
NSF · hear it here
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We do see wasteful spending.
ABC News In-depth · hear it here
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And this is super wasteful.
Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of wasteful. 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.