malingerer
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“Ye’s lawyers called him a liar, a fraud, and a malingerer in court. His medical records, bank records, and personal family history were dissected, mocked, and vilified,” said attorney Ronald Zambrano in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
Gudetama is a genderless, cartoon egg with a sad face and a shiny yellow butt; a burnout, a slacker, a malingerer, crushed under the weight of their own melancholy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
It’s starting to make me feel like I’m a malingerer.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022
Probably the most brilliant malingerer ever was the mafia chieftain Vincent Gigante, dubbed “Oddfather” by the New York press for his strange behavior.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2012
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 Glueck, Bernard
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