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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, Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.

From Prufrock and Other Observations by Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

It is sufficient for the type of individual who malingers to merely say the word, and the most fantastic creation of his fancy immediately becomes a reality and is apperceived by him as such.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard