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malinger
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Malinger \Ma*lin"ger\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. MAlingered; p. pr. & vb. n. Malingering.] To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1820, from French malingrer "to suffer," perhaps also "pretend to be ill," from malingre "ailing, sickly" (13c.), of uncertain origin, possibly a blend of mingre "sickly, miserable" and malade "ill." Mingre is itself a blend of maigre "meager" + haingre "sick, haggard," possibly from Germanic (compare Middle High German hager "thin"). The sense evolution may be through notion of beggars with sham sores. Related: Malingered; malingering; malingerer (1785).
Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive English) To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work or obligation.
WordNet
v. avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill [syn: skulk]
Usage examples of "malinger".
Administrators, undercastes become surly and shiftlesssometimes gold-bricking and malingering to the point of sabotage, to where it actually harms the corporation.
Two troopers, one a pock-faced veteran who had spent his years raising malingering to a substantial art, the other a bull with a broad, flat nose smashed in a tavern brawl, had stoked up a fire for drinks, as troopers will do given any short stop.
Anna firmly told the grizzling child to cease malingering and get herself along to school with Mary.
The doctors began to think the woman was malingering to get on disability herself.
Of course, many of the cases are not examples of true pseudocyesis, with its interesting phenomena, but instances of malingering for mercenary or other purposes, and some are calculated to deceive the most expert obstetricians by their tricks.
In the uncertain illumination, Gregg couldn't spot the armed guard who he was sure accompanied the group to prevent pilferage and malingering.
We chiseled, stole, malingered, goldbricked, and generally made ourselves as comfortable as we could.
From your perspective, any symptom less than what would call for immediate open-heart surgery is a kind of malingering.
Looking monocularly this way and those, it sniffs archaically across the floor and heads for the door, left open by the lapsus linguae of malingering sentinels.
He looked down to Weedle and Malinger, who had landed by his booted feet and now were picking fleas off each other.