malingerer

The Republican theme was that the rolls were brimming with malingerers, layabouts and fraudsters devoted to ripping off the taxpayers.

Republicans consistently slander disability recipients as malingerers and layabouts.

That’s because welfare programs are easiest to axe when conservatives go hunting for budget cuts — Americans typically view them as serving layabouts and malingerers at their expense.

It’s starting to make me feel like I’m a malingerer.

These patients are often dismissed as malingerers or as suffering from a psychosomatic condition—and so it still is with long COVID.