scarce
adjective
insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant.
scarceness
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a word derived from
scarce.
Example Sentences
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While there’s a scarceness of concrete data to support this, the salon owners and barbers in various countries who I spoke to reported a moderate uptick in interest in body hair care.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2018
All the more might it be so in view of its scarceness, from the first.
From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Edward Prime-Stevenson
A scarceness seven years, or else three months' exile, If not, for three days a pestilence most vile, For one thou must have, there is no remedy.
From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Ernest Rhys
It has been hinted that there was a reason for the scarceness of the plums in the plum-cake.
From A Great Emergency and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
There's a number o' machines hier the day, Messis McTarvish, an' a wonderfu' crood; there'll be a bit scarceness ower on yon side, but a gey many a'thegither.
From Mr. Punch in the Highlands by Various
