leper

Chief among the rudely treated are women of childbearing age and the denizens of a leper colony outside Nazareth’s gates.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 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

All these years later, Kuchel remains a leper to the O.C.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2021

So did the idea that I might be a leper.

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

“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

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

They came upon the road unexpectedly and he stopped the boy with one hand and they crouched in the roadside ditch like lepers and listened.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy