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noun

malingerer

someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity

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

  • The doctor's notes distinguished carefully between a patient in real pain and a malingerer hoping for a week indoors.

    Medicine

  • Army records list him as a malingerer, though a later inquiry found he had been walking on a broken foot.

    History

  • Every squad has one malingerer who discovers a mysterious ache the moment the coach announces hill sprints.

    Fitness

  • The insurer's lawyer painted the claimant as a malingerer, but three doctors and a scan said otherwise.

    Law

  • Psychologists have tests that catch a malingerer, since someone faking memory loss usually fails questions a true patient passes.

    Psychology

  • Nobody called him a malingerer twice after the scan showed a stress fracture he had been playing through since February.

    Basketball

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