malinger
verb (used without object)
to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
were malingering
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past progressiveof malinger.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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There it pinched, presumably to ascertain whether or no I were malingering, a most agonizing pinch like to that of a pair of blacksmith's tongs.
From The Ivory Child by Henry Rider Haggard
