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Three times already have 1 malingered through medical examinations.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has never sulked, malingered, strutted, whined, wheedled or referred to himself in the third person.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the frankly psychotic manifestations, such as his delusional ideas and his grave affection of the lower extremity which served to put him in a hospital for the insane, were, of course, entirely malingered.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard

I never malingered when pulling on a rope, for I knew the eagle eyes of my forecastle mates were squinting for just such evidences of my inferiority. 

From A Collection of Stories by London, Jack

They malingered, got in the way, delayed, and doubted the work of Kit and Shorty.

From Smoke Bellew by London, Jack