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Crossword-Solution: LEST 4 letters, 107 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

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Word Word Type Definition
Lest v. i. To listen.
Lest n. Lust; desire; pleasure.
Lest a. Last; least.
Lest a. For fear that; that . . . not; in order that . . . not.
Lest a. That (without the negative particle); -- after certain
expressions denoting fear or apprehension.

Anagrams

Word Anagrams
LEST anagram ELST, ELTS, LETS, SLET, STLE, TELS, TESL

We have 107 clues for the answer “LEST”

Clue Answers
" . . . ___ we forget!": Kipling 1 answer
". . . ___ faith turn to despair" (Shakespeare) 1 answer
". . . ___ ye be judged" 1 answer
"... ___ any man should boast" 1 answer
"... ___ any man should boast" (Eph. 2:9) 1 answer
"... ___ any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:9) 1 answer
"... ___ faith turn to despair": Romeo 1 answer
"... ___ we forget" 1 answer
"Battle not with monsters, ___ ye become a monster" (Nietzsche) 1 answer
"Beware __ anyone cheat you": Colossians 1 answer
"Beware __ you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow": Aesop 1 answer
"Don't be sweet, __ you be eaten up": start of a Jewish proverb 1 answer
"Judge not, ___ ye be judged" 1 answer
"Not of works, _____ any man should boast" 1 answer
"O, swear not by ... the fickle moon ... __ that thy love prove likewise variable": "Romeo and Juliet" 1 answer
"Recessional" word 1 answer
"Sin no more, _____ a worse thing come to thee" (John 5:14) 1 answer
"Take heed ___ any man deceive you": Mark 13:5 1 answer
"__ I should prove the mother of fools": Shakespeare 1 answer
"___ Darkness Fall" (L. Sprague de Camp novel) 1 answer
"___ I sh'd be old-fashioned / I'll put a trinket on": Emily Dickinson 1 answer
"___ I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on": Emily Dickinson 1 answer
"___ that thy love prove likewise variable": Juliet 1 answer
"___ you have any doubts ..." 1 answer
"_____ Darkness Fall" (classic 1939 sci-fi novel) 1 answer
"_____ darkness come upon you" (John 12:35) 1 answer
'-- there be any doubt ...' 1 answer
A word before we forget? 1 answer
Avoiding the risk that 1 answer
Before "we forget" 1 answer
Biblical conjunction 1 answer
Cautionary conjunction 1 answer
Conjunction always used with the subjunctive mood 1 answer
Conjunction of caution 1 answer
Fearing that 1 answer
First word on a military memorial 1 answer
For fear 1 answer
For fear of. 1 answer
Heaven forbid that 1 answer
In order that not 1 answer
In the event 1 answer
In the unfortunate event that 1 answer
It comes before we forget? 1 answer
It may come before we forget 1 answer
It often comes before "we forget" 1 answer
Just in case, negatively speaking 1 answer
Kipling uses it eight times in "Recessional" 1 answer
Kipling word 1 answer
Kipling's "___ We Forget" 1 answer
Obsolescent conjunction 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble LEST4-letter words that start with L4-letter words that end in T4-letter words containing ES4-letter words containing ST4-letter words with L and E

Sentences with LEST (5)

Lest he should be taken alive, Hook always carried about his person a dreadful drug, blended by himself of all the death-dealing rings that had come into his possession.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
But he tasted not, and touched not, Only said to her, “Nokomis, Wait until the sun is setting, Till the darkness falls around us, Till the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, Crying from the desolate marshes, Tells us that the day is ended.” Homeward weeping went Nokomis, Sorrowing for her Hiawatha, Fearing lest his strength should fail him, Lest his fasting should be fatal.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
Let us advise, and to this hazard draw With speed what force is left, and all imploy In our defence, lest unawares we lose This our high place, our Sanctuarie, our Hill.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The Innkeeper, frightened lest he should be attacked, left his new coat in the Thief’s hand and ran as fast as he could into the inn for safety.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Command my liegemen leave the sacrifice And hurry, foot and horse, with rein unchecked, To where the paths that packmen use diverge, Lest the two maidens slip away, and I Become a mockery to this my guest, As one despoiled by force.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Quotes with LEST (3)

Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. They bare their teeth at you from out of their rat holes, thinking that you take pleasure in letting your brilliance dim them - while you'd…
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself.
Irenaeus of Lyons
A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld, — The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies, — Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.
Emily Dickinson The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 120 times in crossword archives (1965–2025).