leper
Example Sentences
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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
A triumphant McKissick called Wood's supporters "a fringe, rogue group" and vowed to turn them into a "leper colony" by building parallel Republican organizations in their territory.
From Salon • Sep. 3, 2021
All these years later, Kuchel remains a leper to the O.C.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2021
Dussel complained to Mother that he was being treated like a leper, that no one was friendly to him and that, after all, he hadn’t done anything to deserve it.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.