leper
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Synonyms for leper
Synonyms
castaway, castoff, offscouring, outcast, pariah, reject
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His time at the leper hospital, too, doesnât suggest an easy conscience. — Christopher Tayler, Harper's magazine, "New Books," 19 Aug. 2019 Farrokhzadâs eyes are wide open in this look at a leper colony in northern Iran. — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, "Doc Talk: Outcasts, deportees, crustaceans, grants," 1 Aug. 2019 The island served as a leper colony in the mid-1800s and their graves are scattered around the island. — Cori Murray, Essence, "Watch âESSENCE Escapesâ: How to Make the Most of 36 Hours in Cape Town," 1 July 2019 More than 225,000 European immigrants and enslaved Africans spent time at the medical way station, dubbed the Lazaretto after St. Lazarus of Bethany, the patron saint of lepers, and a similar quarantine station in Venice. — Inga Saffron, https://www.inquirer.com, "This building on the Delaware River saved immigrant lives for 95 years. Now itâs been rescued by Tinicum Twp. | Inga Saffron," 4 June 2019 American troops have been sent to relieve the British garrison protecting this neutral nation, and United States counterintelligence agents are already billeted at the old leper hospital. — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, "Missing Bodies, Missing Killers, Deadly Missed Opportunities," 25 May 2018 Leeâs father, Lee Kuo Yuan, was Maoâs physician, and later helped found a university in Jakarta, before being detained and tortured in Macau, including nineteen months in a leper colony. — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, "âThe Undressingâ: Poetry of Passion Laid Bare," 8 May 2017 Sheriff Louis Stolz and two policemen headed out to Kalalau to remove one rogue band of lepers. — Brendan Borrell, Smithsonian, "Hawaiiâs Last Outlaw Hippies," 28 Feb. 2018 The hospital where Mariana brings LeĂŁo was once a leper colony; the island was a penal settlement for the exiled enemies of Portugalâs dictatorship. — J. Hoberman, New York Times, "Lav Diaz and Pedro Costa: Slow Cinema on the Cutting Edge," 23 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'leper.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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