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Adjective(1) relating to or resembling or having leprosy

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(1) The Lazarus of the parable appears on crutches with dogs licking his leprous sores, a citation from Luke.(2) Founded as a hospital by Eudo the Steward, to support four leprous residents, its chapel became a parish church and was able to survive the Dissolution.(3) Her impact on the leprous Syrian Commander is, of course, decisive for the narrative.(4) Four leprous men were outside the walls of the city and starving to death.(5) Ranging in age from seven to 16, the Texas children arrived late last month at their last stop in Africa, the government orphanage in this Nigerian market city of millions bustling with traders and crippled and leprous beggars.(6) When I nursed in a clinic near Bombay, a small girl, shielding all her leprous sores, crept inside the door.(7) When a child of a respectable family disappeared without a trace in 1750, riots, spurred by rumors that the children's blood was being drained to cure leprous princes, broke out in several of the city's districts.(8) By all means be appalled by the leprous beggars, but don't allow this to blind you to the rich educational diversity the Third World has to offer.(9) By 724 BC the leprous king Uzziah of Judah had not been seen for a while and finally in that year he died.(10) While leprous signs wracked the entire body, notably disfiguring the face, making public a private sin, it was on the genitals that the first signs of syphilis would appear.(11) The instruction given in Leviticus 13 says: u2018The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out.u2019
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By comparison, Madhuri Dixit
is a leprous prostitute.

By comparison, Madhuri Dixit is a LEPROUS prostitute.

The Big Bang Theory Season 2, Episode 1


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