leper

"If you had enough money and could buy your way into a leper hospital, it's a bit like getting a place in a private care home or something like that."

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

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

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

Soon she’d be without toes and have a bandage like the leper at the level crossing.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

“The world is cursed,” says one of the lepers, “but still you find reasons to keep living.”

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

"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

Her work from Kolkata, India, helping orphans, lepers and the poor had spread to other countries.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2019

“Marie is interested in helping lepers all over the world,” Father Torralba explains.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly