Crossword clues for malingering
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of malinger English)
WordNet
n. evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated; "they developed a test to detect malingering" [syn: skulking]
Wikipedia
Malingering is fabricating or exaggerating the symptoms of mental or physical disorders for a variety of " secondary gain" motives, which may include financial compensation (often tied to fraud); avoiding school, work or military service; obtaining drugs; getting lighter criminal sentences; or simply to attract attention or sympathy. Malingering is different from somatization disorder and factitious disorder. Failure to detect actual cases of malingering imposes a substantial economic burden on the health care system, and false attribution of malingering imposes a substantial burden of suffering on a significant proportion of the patient population. According to the Texas Department of Insurance, fraud that includes malingering costs the U.S. insurance industry approximately $150 billion each year.
Usage examples of "malingering".
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.
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.