What's the difference between lest and lust?

Lest


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sexual rehabilitation of such patients is vital and must be done sensitively lest one's own concepts of "adequate sexuality" be imposed.
  • (2) But lest the duchess feel overlooked, the end section of the show featured long, pale-blue bias-cut crepe dresses with more of a charity gala feel; and knee-length silk crepe dresses with black grosgrain belts seemed princess friendly.
  • (3) Worse, the CFL contains mercury, which according to the EU's own regulations cannot be discarded in ordinary waste, lest the mercury leach into the water supply.
  • (4) And lest there be any remaining doubt, a forensic expert on maggots – such people do exist – testified that the theory of "semen-destroying maggots" was balderdash.
  • (5) Special care in the management of so-called 'chronic Lyme disease' is crucial lest the clinician prescribes prolonged or unending courses of antibiotics for such noninfectious problems.
  • (6) "The story is an extrapolation of what Mary Shelley did" explains writer Kevin Grevioux, lest there be any doubt.
  • (7) Loop sigmoid colostomy employing a stapling device and catheter irrigation of the distal segment is less time-consuming and has lest potential for contamination than the standard double-barrel colostomy.
  • (8) "Lest any holier-than-thou activists and politicians from other parties should forget, this is not just a Lib Dem issue, it is one that confronts women in all parties and in all professions.
  • (9) Whistleblowers with dual citizenship who speak out on Australia’s national security – including those involved in allegations that Timor-Leste’s cabinet room was bugged – could face having their citizenship revoked under proposed laws.
  • (10) You might have read a couple of articles in fashion magazines of late attempting to big up the DD look, no doubt with references to denim's "timelessness", "1950s teenage sense of freedom" and, lest we forget, "Americana".
  • (11) His film, The Angels' Share, a larky whisky heist, was screened with English as well as French subtitles at the festival, lest the Glaswegian accents prove a barrier for non-Scots.
  • (12) Article 6 of the EU treaty could not be clearer: “The union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, principles which are common to the member states.” Lest this be regarded as mere rhetoric, Lord Bingham, the former senior law lord and widely regarded as the most outstanding British judge in the late 20th century, wrote in his book The Rule of Law (p67): “The European Commission has consistently treated democratisation, the rule of law, respect for human rights and good governance as inseparably linked.” This is why, today, we can work anywhere in the EU, have health cover throughout, bring back as much booze in the back of the van as we like, travel on cheap EU-based airlines (with the right to claim compensation for any delay), buy the villa in Marbella, and say what we like – and we can do all of these things with our rights fully protected by the law, just as if we were in the UK.
  • (13) Dahl’s heroine, Sophie, is a lonely young girl plucked from her bed in an orphanage by the titular behemoth, and carried off to Giant Land, his home, lest she alert the normal world to the presence of giants.
  • (14) A spokeswoman for the AFP did not confirm the particular section of the referral, but said in a statement: “On 13 December 2013, the Australian federal police received a referral from the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation relating to an allegation a former Australian intelligence officer disclosed information relating to operational activity in Timor-Leste.
  • (15) However, the author points out that these demonstration projects should be evaluated lest they continue to operate on the basis of rhetoric rather than fact.
  • (16) Since the clinical identification of these autoantigens often relies exclusively on size determination by Western blotting, we have characterized the commonly occurring fragments of histidyl-tRNA synthetase lest they confuse such identification.
  • (17) Lest we forget, Maradona only really got going in the quarter-finals.
  • (18) So, lest we are to be ruled solely by sociopaths and Blair's robot children, we should give them all a Bunbury option: a "Michael Green", under whose name to exercise all the human complexity for which modern politics cannot currently find room.
  • (19) Australia has made fresh promises limiting how it might use documents at the heart of a dispute with Timor-Leste , attempting to weaken the case for the international court of justice to order the sensitive material be surrendered.
  • (20) Lest there have been any remaining doubt, Donald Trump has confirmed a bully now resides in the White House.

Lust


Definition:

  • (n.) Pleasure.
  • (n.) Inclination; desire.
  • (n.) Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain.
  • (n.) Licentious craving; sexual appetite.
  • (n.) Hence: Virility; vigor; active power.
  • (n.) To list; to like.
  • (n.) To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Take-out: Apple can still innovate and Apple can still generate irrational lust out of thin air.
  • (2) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
  • (3) One is reminded of the fate of Iggy Pop’s album Lust for Life , also released in 1977, which looked all set to be his first successful US release, except that it arrived two weeks after the death of Elvis Presley.
  • (4) In Brussels, studying to become a governess at Heger's school, the virgin became ever more lustful.
  • (5) The pioneering contributions of Dr. Lee B. Lusted in the study of diagnostic imaging efficacy are highlighted.
  • (6) He said : The most alarming aspect of the video to me was the seeming delightful blood-lust the aerial weapons team happened to have.
  • (7) So, in Closer, 2004's sexually charged chamber piece in which four beautiful people (Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen) fall in and out of love and lust, she asked Nichols, the director, to remove scenes in which her character - a pink-haired stripper - gets her kit off.
  • (8) In fact he is practically in residence: his new play, The Red Lion , opened last month; when we meet he is in final rehearsals for Three Days in the Country , a version of Ivan Turgenev’s study of love and lust, thwarted idealism and slow-fizzling marital despair.
  • (9) There are good reasons why investors are lusting for gold: Brexit, the Italian banking crisis, Chinese uncertainty, spiralling global debt and Donald Trump.
  • (10) The original article on the subject by Lee Lusted, describing the "state of the art" 20 years ago, is reviewed.
  • (11) As a ghostly relic from the building that was needlessly bulldozed to make way for the 1970s library, itself now to be swept away, it is a pointed reminder that one day, given Birmingham council's lust for demolition, this building's turn will also come.
  • (12) Lack of factual knowledge, parental guidance and lust for material gains are some of the factors the girls felt may be responsible for the upsurge in adolescent sexual behaviour.
  • (13) Perhaps not surprisingly, given our cultural addiction to ever-longer working days, one of the few rising trends since the Observer surveys of 2002 and 2008 concerns the fact that a greater number of people are finding lust (and maybe love) in the workplace – often literally – and not only that, one in five people say they would sleep with someone to further their career.
  • (14) The mad rush to reissue everything Elvis had ever recorded led to a worldwide shortage of the shellac needed for vinyl records, and Lust for Life was doomed by it.
  • (15) Their transfer lust will be sated by the £23m Dynamo Kyiv winger Andriy Yarmolenko , though that move won’t happen until the summer, by which time it’ll be far too late.
  • (16) In Magic Mike , he deconstructed his own reputation as Cinema’s One Truly Objectified Male, whipping up the waves of female lust that buffeted the stage of the Xquisite like a conductor.
  • (17) The onus cannot be on women and girls to try to control male lust.
  • (18) As part of a growing threat to the Seven Kingdoms from beyond the Wall, what will her lust for vengeance mean?
  • (19) And, when it comes to football, there's that schoolkids versus the teachers syndrome Perfumo talks of, and which he describes in his book in terms of the old Oedipal thing of children lusting to annihilate their parents.
  • (20) Odenigbo infuriates Olanna by justifying his infidelity in an Igbo phrase, "self-assured enough to call what he had done a brief rash lust ": the translation of that formula into English shows it up.

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