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

"Hapcheon already had a leper colony," Mr Shim explains.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025

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

Overlooked by my family, forgotten by Hamlet, and ignored by the queen, I felt as lonely as a leper.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

"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

We’re dodging each other like lepers on a sunny spring day, prospecting for toilet paper in the grocery aisles, washing our hands until they become wounds unto themselves.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2020

He was with the thieves, and the prostitutes, and the tax collectors, and the lepers.

From Salon ● May 22, 2019

“These are the lepers of our society, and my passion is to be alongside them. Not to judge or lecture but to love them.”

From Washington Times ● Mar. 3, 2018

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