leper

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

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

In Connecticut, state officials are re-opening previously closed facilities to create separate nursing homes only for residents who are positive for COVID-19 — like modern-day leper colonies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2020

That won’t do, says the leper, I barely have a hand left with the leprosy and I can’t hold on and blow into your hand.

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

"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

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

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2019

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

From Salon ● May 22, 2019

In some places, lepers had to yell, “Unclean!” and shake a rattle as they walked through the streets.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly