dearthy

Definitions

Marked by dearth; exhibiting scarcity, paucity, or lack.

Examples

“[…] the natural has become⟳ the artificial; the noble and desirable, the dearthy and uninteresting; the simple the complex; the intelligible the unintelligible.”

“In such a day as this, many a “little sanctuary” or worshipping knot of God's people (Ezek.11.16) may find⟳ the loved and deeply experienced Luther calculated, though dead, still to speak⟳ to their souls, through this his grand Testimony, more profitably, than many, or perhaps any, ministers they may be able to procure, in this dreary and dearthy last⟳ half of the nineteenth century.”

“The dearth of new British cars grows dearthier.”

“When the day of the cheap computer arrives, the problem of materials-dearth will only get⟳ dearthier because educational technology is still a writer's craft no matter⟳ what the medium of presentation is. So, where are the writers?”

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