Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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leprous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Leprous; infectious; corrupting; poisonous.
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- adjective
leprous ;infectious ;corrupting ;poisonous
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Examples
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This rubbish is wasting time when there are real problems like the tribes of drug crazed violence addicts that stalk the leperous orange night?
Archive 2008-01-13 Newmania 2008
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This rubbish is wasting time when there are real problems like the tribes of drug crazed violence addicts that stalk the leperous orange night?
Boris Shows Sound Judgement. Newmania 2008
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The girlfriend looks like she is trying to imagine oh, say a leperous version of the bug-eyed tall dude from Dorf on Golf rather than Adam.
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Soon, Hammer horror scream queen Ingrid Pitt makes an appearance, although her leperous make-up made her unrecognizable.
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Was this a leperous Pharisee named Simon who had a summer home in Galilee?
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For my entry in the unofficial Round Table on the topic of "evil in videogames", I have been pressured by leperous squirrels to make noises about the depiction of social evils in interactive media.
Before I Subject You To Race Hatred, Mr Bond... Greg Tannahill 2006
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For my entry in the unofficial Round Table on the topic of "evil in videogames", I have been pressured by leperous squirrels to make noises about the depiction of social evils in interactive media.
Archive 2006-05-01 Greg Tannahill 2006
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The pleasure of the poet, and the reader, is seeing these mean little memes circulating freely, doing their damage, a leperous distilment poured into the porches of our ears.
Hullabaloo 2004
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And what "leperous distilment" does one pour on a porch?
Hullabaloo 2004
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Before the new Shakespeare Society, 1882, it was contended and proved to the satisfaction of the Society, that "the cursed Hebena," the "leperous distilment poured into the chambers of mine ears," told of, so pathetically, by the sad ghost of Hamlet's father, was the
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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