Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 20, 2011
dearth \DURTH\, adjective:
An inadequate supply; scarcity; lack.
The B.O. and his regime suffer from a horrific dearth of good judgment!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
Laundry pile followed laundry pile-at long intervals; dearth of handkerchief followed dearth of handkerchief-at short ones; not to mention dearth of sock, of shirt, of everything.-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
While smiles were rare enough in a place like the Pentagon, the total dearth of them on this day was most telling.-- Harold Coyle, More Than Courage
Dearth relates to the same Old English root from which "dear" is derived.
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