dearth
- (noun) a scarcity; smallness of number; a paucity
"There’s never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President." - Don Delillo (b. 1926), U.S. author.
"There’s no dearth of kindness
In this world of ours;
Only in our blindness
We gather thorns for flowers."
- (Thomas) Gerald Massey (1828–1907)
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