leprously
adverb
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The backpacker hostel in their gentrifying neighborhood was made up of three connected terrace houses, leprous with pink paint and festooned with Tibetan prayer flags.
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Fiona McFarlane, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
And her hair tortured into a leprous perm.
—New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
Huge marabou storks—known as the undertaker bird on account of their haunted movements, leprous pink skin, and dark wings that hang like cloaks—slipped and flapped through the grasses around us, contributing to the funeral mood of our meal.
—Torrey Peters, Bon Appétit, 4 Jan. 2022
The largest iteration of Audrey II squats upon the stage like a mammoth, leprous frog — a spectacle that is practically worth the price of admission all by itself.
—Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2019
And not be seen as leprous, or as condemned, or as diseased.
—Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 13 June 2019
Fiona McFarlane, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
And her hair tortured into a leprous perm.
—New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
Huge marabou storks—known as the undertaker bird on account of their haunted movements, leprous pink skin, and dark wings that hang like cloaks—slipped and flapped through the grasses around us, contributing to the funeral mood of our meal.
—Torrey Peters, Bon Appétit, 4 Jan. 2022
The largest iteration of Audrey II squats upon the stage like a mammoth, leprous frog — a spectacle that is practically worth the price of admission all by itself.
—Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2019
And not be seen as leprous, or as condemned, or as diseased.
—Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 13 June 2019
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“Leprous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leprous. Accessed 9 Sep. 2024.
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leprous
adjective
lep·rous
ˈlep-rəs 
: infected with, relating to, or resembling leprosy
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