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malingerer

[ UK /mɐlˈɪŋɡəɹɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity

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  • It is interesting that the latter diagnosis was given by a doctor who told you it was a condition dreamed up by malingerers.
  • 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
  • Roy was, at best a malingerer, and a worst a party crasher. 3 oz. of liquid
  • 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
  • So it was that a decorated war hero with two tours of combat duty becomes a malingerer and a braggert. Refracted Reality
  • 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
  • I am not usually a hypochondriac, or a malingerer, I'm glad to say. Worried
  • Malingerer's arm was low, but it never fell below shoulder level.
  • However, recent research reported that we have become a nation of malingerers, with nearly six million of us too sick to work.
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