How To Use Malinger In A Sentence

  • However, recent research reported that we have become a nation of malingerers, with nearly six million of us too sick to work.
  • New chapters on Techniques for the Malingering Patient and Assessing Attention - Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
  • I am not usually a hypochondriac, or a malingerer, I'm glad to say. Worried
  • Feldman is a nationally known expert in the areas of factitious disorders, Munchausen by proxy and malingering, having written three books on these subjects.
  • There are cases where the hallucinations may be malingered or may be irrelevant to the criminal activity.
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  • And we all have some creative, malingering patients worthy of an Academy Award.
  • Researchers also note the need to examine the patient's psychological status when hysteria, malingering, or factitious illness may be a factor.
  • It's the standard operating put-down with which irate mothers pack off malingering boys - who cite unconnected causes while feigning outlandish illnesses - to school.
  • Malingerer's arm was low, but it never fell below shoulder level.
  • Is Miss Mason suffering from Chronic Pain Disorder or is she malingering…?
  • It is interesting that the latter diagnosis was given by a doctor who told you it was a condition dreamed up by malingerers.
  • Many people associate mental illness with self indulgence, weakness, and malingering.
  • Initially, we were dejected and nearly ‘bought’ his hard luck story; but a little questioning gave away his sheer malingering.
  • Someone who malingers will fake an illness for some type of external gain, such as money.
  • The problem is the difficulty of distinguishing malingering from factitious disorders, in which symptoms are intentionally produced but where there is no apparent external incentive and the motivation seems to be unconscious.
  • The word “malingerer” popped into his head, but he tried to put it out of his mind. My First Abortion
  • Other states, like New York, have created an entirely state-funded duplicate of welfare for the malingerers.
  • The patients were not diagnosed as having a factitious disorder or malingering because their symptoms were judged not to be fabricated, feigned, or intentionally produced.
  • There's a fine line between what's classed as malingering and what is accepted as genuine illness.
  • The Knicks -- the laughing stock, the abyss of the NBA -- got a new coach who cleaned house and courageously, in a principled manner benched the team's top malingerer, Stephon Marbury. Dave Hollander: New York Sportswriters Missing Forest Through the Trees
  • They made him feel like a malingerer for complaining about his back pain, he says, and "they pretty much classified me as a dirt bag. Resistance is all: iraq war vet suicide rate still climbing, chronically ill soldiers forced to deploy
  • Why are they malingering and eating up valuable Medicare tax dollars when they could so easily put us all out of their misery?
  • Roy was, at best a malingerer, and a worst a party crasher. 3 oz. of liquid
  • Companies indicated that, in their opinion, a whopping 75% of time taken was due to feigned illness or malingering.
  • But the numbers on incapacity benefit who are "malingering" are a minority. Labour conference live – Sunday 26 September
  • Evidence for this may prove difficult to find, and it remains impossible to exclude malingering as a potential cause.
  • We malingered in Iraq until sectarian violence was out of control, then we implemented a bailout plan, called the surge. U.A.W. Ads Take on McCain in Midwest - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • We've seen senior members of parliament here tell people with depression they're malingering, ‘get over it, get back to work’.
  • He was a good-hearted man at the bottom, however, and as tender as a woman in cases of real suffering; though woe to the malingerer or shammer of illness who incautiously ventured within reach of his caustic tongue! Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
  • I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
  • So it was that a decorated war hero with two tours of combat duty becomes a malingerer and a braggert. Refracted Reality
  • Inasmuch as results are not intuitive, inconsistency from an individual's attempts to malinger can be detected easily.
  • Among my disorders are Meniere's Disease and PTSD, both of which were repeatedly misdiagnosed before finally being correctly diagnosed, and among the misdiagnoses were "malingering," (i.e. psychosomatic) Horses Mouth May 10, 2007 4:47 PM
  • As a globe-trotting malingerer, I have always enjoyed returning from a jaunt abroad with fresh support for popular American stereotypes about foreigners. French Twist: Meet Monsieur Nice Guy
  • Some people steal time from their employer, called malingering, or steal goods from their employer, called pilfering. Creative Capitalism
  • And if it is, what about the terrific temptation we create for malingering?
  • E. B. DuBois, who explained it as the inevitable consequence of forced labor: All observers spoke of the fact that the slaves were slow and churlish; that they wasted material and malingered at their work. A Renegade History of the United States
  • I feel like a malingerer without a cause to point to.
  • But perhaps the most satisfying conclusion that he made was that Mitchell is suffering from "malingering" -- faking psychological symptoms to avoid criminal prosecution for the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart. Robin Sax: "The People" Have the Right to a Speedy Trial, Too!
  • I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
  • It is sufficient for the type of individual who malingers to merely say the word, and the most fantastic creation of his fancy immediately becomes a reality and is apperceived by him as such. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
  • Because it is often impossible to determine who is malingering and who is not, it is impossible to know how frequently malingering occurs.
  • I never malingered when pulling on a rope, for I knew the eagle eyes of my forecastle mates were squinting for just such evidences of my inferiority. THAT DEAD MEN RISE UP NEVER
  • Were an alleged lunatic standing as a defendant in a criminal suit to use one-tenth of the amount of ingenuity and conscious direction of his symptoms that the average paranoiac uses, he would furnish the champions of the idea of malingering of mental disease with enough material to convict a dozen lunatics. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
  • Psychosocial problems may be, or become, predominant, especially if patients are treated as malingerers or hypochondriacs.
  • I can think of several options other than lying and malingering to explain the onset of hysterical symptoms and recovered memories.
  • 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.
  • 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...
  • 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
  • Earlier this year a poll found that 40% of small businesses thought employees were malingering when they took sick leave.
  • I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
  • 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
  • Another woman, with early symptoms of Bubonic plague, was told she was malingering.
  • Of the nine, a number were malingerers who the manager was having difficulty motivating.
  • MARSHALL: Well, it suggests something called malingering, which is faking. CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2005
  • Some people steal time from their employer, called malingering, or steal goods from their employer, called pilfering. Creative Capitalism
  • A dramatised sequence shows a malingering worker suffering from a bad conscience as the radio relays Harris' request for one last spurt of effort.
  • Apparently, we are not only procrastinators and malingerers but a bunch of lily-livered cowards because going to the dentist tops the list, followed by exercising and saving money.
  • Southern masters and overseers used timepieces to ensure that tasks were completed in a timely fashion and that slaves were not malingering.
  • A distinction should be made between factitious disorders and malingering.
  • They malingered, got in the way, delayed, and doubted the work of Kit and Shorty. THE MEAT
  • But in the case of mental illness, people are inclined to shut their minds to it, or, even worse, accuse the sufferer of malingering.
  • Any new medical condition is at first scoffed at as "malingering," "hypochondria" or "hysteria," and only slowly becomes established. Electrosensitives reach out to OEN
  • The last few hundred bats always malingered in the nesting coves, and tonight the Leviathan needed all of her beasties in the air. LEVIATHAN
  • Bill Shankly had little patience or sympathy for injured footballers and once called Chris Lawler a "malingerer" when a thigh strain in 1971 restricted the full-back to light training after he had made more than 300 appearances in succession for Liverpool. England's crocks could have helped the 'golden generation' to shine | Rob Bagchi
  • Although no injuries have been reported yet, it is unclear how many real or malingered ones may occur as a result of the recall. Tuesday Breakfast Bender
  • And is he really ill or just malingering?
  • In 11 seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Jagr had won two Stanley Cups by the time he had turned 21 and he admittedly became spoiled with the trappings of super-stardom—earning him a reputation as a malingerer. Why Didn't New York Keep Jagr?
  • they developed a test to detect malingering
  • Role-playing is not the same as faking or malingering.

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