malinger
verb (used without object)
to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
malingered
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past participleof malinger.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof malinger.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
malingerverb (used without object)to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
Example Sentences
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He has never sulked, malingered, strutted, whined, wheedled or referred to himself in the third person.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three times already have 1 malingered through medical examinations.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is highly doubtful whether proper means will ever be evolved to enable one to differentiate accurately between that which is genuine and that which is malingered in cases like, for instance, the foregoing.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck
It was not that the men malingered, they simply, neither of them, had the knack of keeping the work going at top speed and top effectiveness.
From A Man to His Mate by Stockton Mulford
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 Jack London
