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

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

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

From Washington Post ● May 2, 2022

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

St. Moling did but he no sooner had the leper up on his back than the leper started to complain.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Distillers threw rotten fruit and molasses waste in the gallon to brew with ammonium chloride to produce something called “snake juice,” which was collected by lepers and taken around the city.

From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2025

“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

“There are foundations for the study of cancer and tuberculosis, but for three thousand years lepers have been the outcast. Men flee from them and will not help them.”

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly