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Synonyms for lest
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lestconjunction
For fear that; that . . . not; in order that . . . not; in case.
He won't go outside, lest he be eaten by those ravenous eagles
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beforeConjunction
Dictionary of English Synonymes
lestconj.
Synonyms:
that not, for fear that
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How to use lest in a sentence?
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
Dont desire much,lest you be greedy.
America’s exceptional armed forces have altered the course of the world for the better. From the Union Army defeating slave owning confederates, to the Greatest Generation and her Allies vanquishing the Nazis or our special operators hunting down the perpetrators of 9/11. We count the names of each fallen solider lest they be countless. They are the good guys. They run to the sound of gunfire. They know pain and suffering we never will.
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