malinger
verb (used without object)
to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
malingers
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present tense formof malinger (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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It malingers, this idea; it affects us still.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2011
His fellow prisoners, the great German admirals Raeder and Doenitz, squabble like jealous ensigns; the disintegrating Rudolph Hess, once Hitler's deputy, malingers and throws fits to garner pity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now it malingers because of people's concern for the second front.
From Time Magazine Archive
Smoothed by long fingers, Asleep... tired... or it malingers.
From Poems by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
The following study is undertaken less for the purpose of discussing the psychology of malingering than with the object in view of illustrating by means of clinical records the type of individual who malingers.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck
