How could I have the heart to joke at a moment like this, when the friend of my youth has suddenly become a social leper?

"When the matter was made public you became a social leper and an outcast.

Pilloried: Parents who educate their children independently are treated like 'social lepers', according to a new book.

"The anti-smoking brigade have basically managed to turn smokers into social lepers these days."

We would treat him courteously, but he would become a social leper."

It's just that similar sun-haters whisper to each other in corridors when they think no one else can hear for fear of becoming social lepers.

Financiers are also rapidly becoming social lepers.

He is a social leper.

Mentals can become social lepers.

"They were social lepers and I didn’t want to risk catching the infection they carried."18 This, of course, was a foolish attitude.

A social leper.

It is known that these priests and converts did not simply disappear when the boy king took the throne, they became social lepers and outcasts.

We’ve made drink-drivers social lepers.

Are you being contaminated by this social contact or are you decontaminating this social leper?

Thereafter no one would trust him, no one would change words with him; he was an outcast, a social leper.

Mrs Bauwens claimed the story made her out to be a 'social leper' not fit to be seen with a Government Minister.

I tried to hide as much as possible, unable to decide whether I was some sort of social leper or a chrysalis about to become a butterfly.

The awfully nice people at Debrett’s have devised an etiquette guide so that students can get through the minefield that is freshers’ week without becoming social lepers.

She was not only a social outcast, her liaison with Nakane Toh-Shiba had made her a social leper.

Saadya briefly considered whether a Bynar social leper might succeed in expediting the computational efforts that were taking up so much of 1011's and 1110's time these days.

What a cruel, cruel thing to do to our financially dependent and aging population - stick 'em all in a social leper colony, reserved only for the old!

The ink-well stood open; to him its sable depths were a positive Jordan, in which, if he dipped seven times, he might yet cease to be a social leper.

Despite his own candid clubhouse reporting, Young blasted Jim Bouton as a "social leper" after the publication of the pitcher's tell-all book Ball Four.