malinger
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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
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 Glueck, Bernard
It used to be said, in the old times, that 'it was human nature' to shirk and malinger and loaf, but we have found that it is no such thing.
From A Traveler from Altruria: Romance by Howells, William Dean
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 Coolidge, Dane
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