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

To shirk or malinger on the man who paid me my wages was a sin, first, against myself, and second, against him. 

From War of the Classes by Jack London

But, within limits, they may loaf and malinger, and, as scabs, are exceeded by the machine, which never loafs and malingers and which is the ideally perfect scab.

From War of the Classes by Jack London

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

Still, nobody would think for one moment that the child malingers when it is unable to answer questions, though these might concern well-known facts.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck

It malingers because of weakness, playfulness, imitation, egotism, jealousy, envy, and revenge.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Three times already have 1 malingered through medical examinations.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

It is highly doubtful whether proper means will ever be evolved to enable one to differentiate accurately between that which is genuine and that which is malingered in cases like, for instance, the foregoing.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck

It was heavy work, and, in spite of the fact that I malingered at every opportunity, I was played out.

From The Road by Jack London

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

Several times his officers looked closely at him for malingering, but no charge was brought.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck