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

I thought about the feather on my cheek and the one on the wall of the leper cottage.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

She also employs and supports a community of lepers and former sex workers who society would have otherwise cast aside.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

“People with AIDs were considered to be the lepers of the time,” Pieters said in a recent interview at his Silver Lake home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

"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

Mind you, this is the supremely healthy, singing-and-dancing variety of lepers.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022

Certainly not to bring soup to the lepers there.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk