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

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 William Dean Howells

When the sound shall pass my sense’s confines, Melt away to color or thin flame, Does it still malinger in the prism, Falsify the crucible with shame?

From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Thomas Buford Meteyard

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 malingers, this idea; it affects us still.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2011

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Smoothed by long fingers, Asleep ... tired ... or it malingers, Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.

From Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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

They malingered, got in the way, delayed, and doubted the work of Kit and Shorty.

From Smoke Bellew by Jack London

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

This is one of the factors which determines the growing realization among present-day psychiatrists of the extreme difficulty to state in a given case which is malingered and which genuine in the symptomatology.

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

Rather Rothman's test scores were so inconsistent and, at times, so low that they could point to only one conclusion: Rothman was malingering, Suarez said.

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

Ed Seger, the doctor who examined George, mysteriously concluded that he was not mentally ill but was "malingering" or faking symptoms of mental illness.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson