Leper
noun
A person who has leprosy, a serious disease that damages the body's skin and nerves.
He was treated like a leper due to his illness.
Often appears as...
- treated like a leper
- become a leper
noun
A person who is avoided or shunned by others because their presence is undesirable or unwelcome.
After the scandal, he was treated like a leper by his former friends.
Often appears as...
- treated like a leper
- feel like a leper
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Disapproving
noun
A person who has leprosy, a serious disease that damages the body's skin and nerves.
He was treated like a leper due to his illness.
Often appears as...
- treated like a leper
- become a leper
noun
A person who is avoided or shunned by others because their presence is undesirable or unwelcome.
After the scandal, he was treated like a leper by his former friends.
Often appears as...
- treated like a leper
- feel like a leper
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Historical Disease
Leprosy is less common today but was widespread in the past, often mentioned in history and religion.
Ancient texts reveal how lepers were ostracized from society.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensitive Term
The word 'leper' may offend; 'person with leprosy' is more respectful and currently preferred.
Organizations work to support persons with leprosy, not 'lepers'.
Pro Tip 3/3Medical Context
Used in medical or historical contexts, often with a focus on the social impact of the disease.
Medical students study how lepers were historically quarantined.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Disease
Leprosy is less common today but was widespread in the past, often mentioned in history and religion.
Ancient texts reveal how lepers were ostracized from society.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensitive Term
The word 'leper' may offend; 'person with leprosy' is more respectful and currently preferred.
Organizations work to support persons with leprosy, not 'lepers'.
Pro Tip 3/3Medical Context
Used in medical or historical contexts, often with a focus on the social impact of the disease.
Medical students study how lepers were historically quarantined.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Disease
Leprosy is less common today but was widespread in the past, often mentioned in history and religion.
Ancient texts reveal how lepers were ostracized from society.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensitive Term
The word 'leper' may offend; 'person with leprosy' is more respectful and currently preferred.
Organizations work to support persons with leprosy, not 'lepers'.
Pro Tip 3/3Medical Context
Used in medical or historical contexts, often with a focus on the social impact of the disease.
Medical students study how lepers were historically quarantined.
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Safari Live - Day 11 PIPE...
so the vervet monkeys actually calling to say there might have been a cat around there but you can see the trees very green again because it's in a drainage line so there's going to be lots or more water there so there it is look at that so that's the drainage line there that's where the lepers have been hanging out so whenever we've said that lepers have stolen clothes from our
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Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...
dear life from there and eventually that would have suffocated this impala to falling over and and kind of dying from there so that's how she's killed it is not by the neck she managed to get it by the nose instead which is good it's a good technique i often do do it and a lot of lepers will use that
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Safari Live - Day 142 PIPE...
the entire after in following this hurt I know it would have been nice to have seen lepers but hopefully rofl and James will be able to pull those cats out of the bag I'm going to make the most of the sighting because they are my favorite animal in the whole wide world and I have not seen them for
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Ron Eglash: The fractals...
and give seven coins to seven lepers and so on. And finally, he revealed the truth of the matter. And it turns out it's a pseudo-random number generator using deterministic chaos. When you have a four-bit symbol, you then put it together with another one sideways.
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Safari Live - Day 325 PIPE...
that but fortunately for a lot of the Predators they actually have very very strong stomach acids so that'll actually aid in possibly killing off some of that bacteria I've even seen lepers in the desperation of the dry season drinking
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Releasing Rescued...
leper cats is not only a highlight of my time here at the sanctuary but even a highlight of my entire career because like I've worked with cats all of my life and that's the first time I've put them back in the world
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Terrified Monkeys Scared...
important because each predator requires its own particular response all these might get now know that there's a leper around and you might think therefore that they would flee but they don't
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Safari Live - Day 261 PIPE...
chuckling the chances of a leper to attack a human they are very much high but here in Juma the lepers they are still behaving their natural life their behavior is not modified at all what
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Safari Live - Day 226 PIPE...
of course it is important there are so many impala de castilla walk antelope species out there and that that's exactly it at times like this it becomes easier for lepers to take down prey
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Safari Live - Day 368 PIPE...
try and not interfere with his his hunting you know being a little bit darker and in quieter what might help him and I sometimes when lepers do get to the point where they're tired of
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Safari Live - Day 11 PIPE...
so the vervet monkeys actually calling to say there might have been a cat around there but you can see the trees very green again because it's in a drainage line so there's going to be lots or more water there so there it is look at that so that's the drainage line there that's where the lepers have been hanging out so whenever we've said that lepers have stolen clothes from our
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Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...
dear life from there and eventually that would have suffocated this impala to falling over and and kind of dying from there so that's how she's killed it is not by the neck she managed to get it by the nose instead which is good it's a good technique i often do do it and a lot of lepers will use that
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 142 PIPE...
the entire after in following this hurt I know it would have been nice to have seen lepers but hopefully rofl and James will be able to pull those cats out of the bag I'm going to make the most of the sighting because they are my favorite animal in the whole wide world and I have not seen them for
Video examples
Ron Eglash: The fractals...
and give seven coins to seven lepers and so on. And finally, he revealed the truth of the matter. And it turns out it's a pseudo-random number generator using deterministic chaos. When you have a four-bit symbol, you then put it together with another one sideways.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 325 PIPE...
that but fortunately for a lot of the Predators they actually have very very strong stomach acids so that'll actually aid in possibly killing off some of that bacteria I've even seen lepers in the desperation of the dry season drinking
Video examples
Releasing Rescued...
leper cats is not only a highlight of my time here at the sanctuary but even a highlight of my entire career because like I've worked with cats all of my life and that's the first time I've put them back in the world
Video examples
Terrified Monkeys Scared...
important because each predator requires its own particular response all these might get now know that there's a leper around and you might think therefore that they would flee but they don't
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 261 PIPE...
chuckling the chances of a leper to attack a human they are very much high but here in Juma the lepers they are still behaving their natural life their behavior is not modified at all what
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 226 PIPE...
of course it is important there are so many impala de castilla walk antelope species out there and that that's exactly it at times like this it becomes easier for lepers to take down prey
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 368 PIPE...
try and not interfere with his his hunting you know being a little bit darker and in quieter what might help him and I sometimes when lepers do get to the point where they're tired of
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Gail Collins
American Journalist
What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.
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Chris Gethard
American Actor
I had bedbugs in 2005. I felt like a leper. Worse than a leper. At least lepers had a colony they could go and live in with other people who empathized. I instead had friends stand up from tables and walk out of restaurants when I told them I had bedbugs, because they were afraid I'd transfer the bugs to them.
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Bharati Mukherjee
Indian Writer
Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection.
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Graham Greene
British Novelist
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Mother Teresa
Albanian Saint
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
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Michael Patrick King
American Writer
Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.
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Allan Sherman
American Musician
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
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Winnie Harlow
Canadian Model
I get comments saying that I'm a leper, I control how my skin changes, I bleach my skin, my skin's burned. None of those are true.
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Robin Williams
American Comedian
Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
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Blake Edwards
American Director
Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
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Gail Collins
American Journalist
What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.
Quote examples
Chris Gethard
American Actor
I had bedbugs in 2005. I felt like a leper. Worse than a leper. At least lepers had a colony they could go and live in with other people who empathized. I instead had friends stand up from tables and walk out of restaurants when I told them I had bedbugs, because they were afraid I'd transfer the bugs to them.
Quote examples
Bharati Mukherjee
Indian Writer
Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection.
Quote examples
Graham Greene
British Novelist
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Quote examples
Mother Teresa
Albanian Saint
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Quote examples
Michael Patrick King
American Writer
Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.
Quote examples
Allan Sherman
American Musician
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
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Winnie Harlow
Canadian Model
I get comments saying that I'm a leper, I control how my skin changes, I bleach my skin, my skin's burned. None of those are true.
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Robin Williams
American Comedian
Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
Quote examples
Blake Edwards
American Director
Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
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