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

He advocated for the creation of institutions, colloquially known as leper colonies, for those afflicted with perhaps the world’s most stigmatized disease.

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

“Father says I must tell you everything, but the inside story of the life of the leper in a poor and sadly abandoned leper colony is too full of heartaches, misery, and want,” she writes.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“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