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verb

malinger

avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill

In a sentence

Six example sentences with malinger, each labelled with its topic.

  • Researchers designed a test that separates genuine memory loss from patients who malinger for the sake of a settlement.

    Psychology

  • The insurer argued that the claimant had malingered for eleven months, citing video of him roofing his own garage.

    Law

  • The comedy follows a clerk who malingers his way through an entire summer, coughing theatrically whenever his manager appears.

    Movies

  • The supervisor suspected two clerks of malingering, since both called in ill only on the mornings of inventory counts.

    Business

  • The novel's schoolboy malingers for a week with a thermometer held against the radiator, until the cook discovers the trick.

    Literature

  • Doctors are trained to tell a patient who malingers from one with real pain that simply leaves no mark on a scan.

    Medicine

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