leper

We learn that in Romania, for example, the leper colony of Tichilești was one of the only places in the country to lack state informants under the totalitarian Ceaușescu dictatorship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

"Hapcheon already had a leper colony," Mr Shim explains.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025

Modified chaulmoogra oil, based on the Ball Method, was distributed worldwide and helped free countless people from isolated leper colonies.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2023

Once he wrote an article about getting dating advice from a charming leper in order to explore “alienation, rejection and isolation” after Gutfeld had gone through the breakup of a long relationship.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2022

It would just be like she was a leper, and leprosy really wasn’t so bad once you made it part of your routine.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

Distillers threw rotten fruit and molasses waste in the gallon to brew with ammonium chloride to produce something called “snake juice,” which was collected by lepers and taken around the city.

From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2025

"I simply hope that people who, in my opinion, have been treated rather like lepers, are now on a journey which treats them as people with a health condition."

From BBC ● May 16, 2022

We’re dodging each other like lepers on a sunny spring day, prospecting for toilet paper in the grocery aisles, washing our hands until they become wounds unto themselves.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2020

“These are the lepers of our society, and my passion is to be alongside them. Not to judge or lecture but to love them.”

From Washington Times ● Mar. 3, 2018

They came upon the road unexpectedly and he stopped the boy with one hand and they crouched in the roadside ditch like lepers and listened.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy