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malinger

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

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  • Any new medical condition is at first scoffed at as "malingering," "hypochondria" or "hysteria," and only slowly becomes established. Electrosensitives reach out to OEN
  • Another woman, with early symptoms of Bubonic plague, was told she was malingering.
  • As his Congressional colleagues worked tirelessly in Washington, he malingered in New York. Deanie Mills: The Difference Between A Functional Leader And A Fictional One
  • I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
  • Earlier this year a poll found that 40% of small businesses thought employees were malingering when they took sick leave.
  • She calls her malingering dad who says Maria is in India having a hip replacement. Foreign Body-Robin Cook « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
  • It made R. feel even more awful that he knew people suspected him of being a malingerer - the very last person you'd have had the right to accuse of being work-shy. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
  • For many years there's been a belief that this is a psychological condition, that it doesn't really exist, that the patients are imagining symptoms or malingering.
  • I can think of several options other than lying and malingering to explain the onset of hysterical symptoms and recovered memories.
  • And if it is, what about the terrific temptation we create for malingering?
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