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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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