Bad and Scarce

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Bad adjective - Falling short of a standard.

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Scarce and bad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scarce" instead an adjective "Bad".

Nearby Words: badly, badness

Scarce adjective - Less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable.

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Bad and scarce are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad" instead an adjective "Scarce".

Nearby Words: scarcity, scarcely, scarceness

Bandits and other bad guys are everywhere, the environment is generally unfriendly, food and water is scarce in most places... it's borderline post-apocalyptic.

Source: Roleplay / The Massive Multi-Fandom RPG
Letting public order decay, medical facilities recede to the stone age, and resource run scarce might be bad for a race, but just creates new opportunities for you.

Source: Video Game / The Last Federation
Sarcasm is literally a foreign language in some countries, where the spoken and written languages of those countries do not use sarcasm... though they're becoming increasingly scarce as time goes by due to the bad influence of others.

Source: Sarcasm-Blind

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