malinger

In other cases, prisoners malinger to try to get themselves out of solitary confinement, or a transfer into a quieter mental health-centered unit.

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2022

She looked up malinger and read the definition: “To pretend to be ill in order to escape duty or work.’

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech

No man ever essayed to malinger or to shirk a duty to which he had been allotted by the doctor.

From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Henry Charles Mahoney

One, of course, can readily see with what facility an individual of the type under discussion could malinger mental symptoms.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck

It was quick work; but Bowles had a college education—he had been only six hours a cowboy when he learned to malinger on the job.

From Bat Wing Bowles by Dane Coolidge

It malingers, this idea; it affects us still.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2011

Now it malingers because of people's concern for the second front.

From Time Magazine Archive

His fellow prisoners, the great German admirals Raeder and Doenitz, squabble like jealous ensigns; the disintegrating Rudolph Hess, once Hitler's deputy, malingers and throws fits to garner pity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Smoothed by long fingers, Asleep... tired... or it malingers.

From Poems by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

The following study is undertaken less for the purpose of discussing the psychology of malingering than with the object in view of illustrating by means of clinical records the type of individual who malingers.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck

Three times already have 1 malingered through medical examinations.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has never sulked, malingered, strutted, whined, wheedled or referred to himself in the third person.

From Time Magazine Archive

The same reward was given by mistake to the boilermaker, Mohammed Sa'íd Haddád, who had malingered, instead of working, through the night.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

This man unquestionably suffered from a psychosis, and yet there is likewise no doubt that he malingered.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck

The differentiation of the malingered symptoms from the genuine ones is, as a rule, extremely difficult, and great caution is to be exercised in pronouncing a given individual a malingerer.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck

Neither the defence's witnesses nor the prison's doctors believed Jeffries was "malingering" - or intentionally fabricating or exaggerating his symptoms.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026

In some cases, they have attributed reported health-effects from fume exposure to factors including hyperventilation, jet lag, psychological stress, mass hysteria and malingering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2025

“People can be mentally ill and malingering; they can be demented and exaggerate,” says Rory Houghtalen, a forensic psychiatrist who consults on criminal legal cases in New York State.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023

Goldstein, who did not return a message seeking comment, practices in Chicago and has lectured on the topic of malingering, according to a resume posted online.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

I spent the game near enough to the ball to not get done for malingering, but far enough to avoid having to touch it.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell