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malingerer

noun as in slacker

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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.

Experts have said Army culture breeds the belief that missing soldiers are malingerers or cowards, which makes finding them a low priority.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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