leper
noun
a person who has leprosy.
lepers
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pluralof leper.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Distillers threw rotten fruit and molasses waste in the gallon to brew with ammonium chloride to produce something called “snake juice,” which was collected by lepers and taken around the city.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2025
“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
I remembered how it had felt to stand outside the Penikese hospital and learn that some of the lepers had been from islands like Cape Verde and Tobago.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
