leper

Chief among the rudely treated are women of childbearing age and the denizens of a leper colony outside Nazareth’s gates.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 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

I am a leper, I will scratch—it is the same.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

“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

"Jesus went around healing lepers and touched them without fear of getting leprosy," he said.

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2021

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

The traditional lepers, Carl Norrest, Floyd Chaceley, and Nicholas Briar, acted like I'm one of them now and made space.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell