leper

To Spanish actor and nobleman José Luis de Vilallonga, Chez Régine was “a leper colony for the overprivileged.”

From Washington Post ● May 2, 2022

There is a moment in Warner’s novel when the bishop’s clerk journeys to a leper house and participates in an impromptu recital of Ars Nova, a new style of polyphonic music.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2021

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

Maybe Miss Maggie was right and I wasn’t a leper, whether I’d come from Penikese or not.

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

In the Middle Ages, we put lepers into asylums and strapped them with bells and wooden clappers so we could hear them approach.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2020

In Manila, the capital city where Joey now lives, lepers were once required to wear hoods and cloaks and ring a bell to announce their presence.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly