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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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
This is one of the factors which determines the growing realization among present-day psychiatrists of the extreme difficulty to state in a given case which is malingered and which genuine in the symptomatology.
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
In other words, there was no doubt that the patient malingered, but there was likewise no doubt that he suffered from a psychosis.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck
