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

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

I thought about the feather on my cheek and the one on the wall of the leper cottage.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

“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

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

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

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2019

And so he continues ministering to the lepers and outcasts.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver