The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leprous \Lep"rous\ (-r[=u]s), a. [OF. leprous, lepros, F. l['e]preux, fr. L. leprosus, fr. lepra, leprae, leprosy. See Leper.]
Infected with leprosy; pertaining to or resembling leprosy. ``His hand was leprous as snow.''
--Ex. iv. 6.(Nat. Hist.) Leprose. [1913 Webster] -- Lep"rous*ly, adv. -- Lep"rous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a leprous way.
Usage examples of "leprously".
It was inhuman, unalive, the mask of a machine built by some Daedalus, or of a leprously silver automaton stepped out of myth.
He could see glints from the shields affixed along her side, while astern the monstreme was close too, looming like a leprously opalescent cliff arock.
Its dripping scales shone leprously in the moonlight as it reared its form high above the deck, while the stricken man screamed and writhed like a mouse in the fangs of a python.
The thing was leprously pale like all zombies, but this one had a dozen eyes.