malingerer
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These patients are often dismissed as malingerers or as suffering from a psychosomatic condition—and so it still is with long COVID.
From Scientific American • Feb. 16, 2022
Then, in our post-coronavirus world, the people we elect to make laws should stop treating these workers like slackers and malingerers and start treating them with the respect every Floridian deserves.
From Washington Times • Mar. 25, 2020
A more nuanced ethical issue involves the potential use of neuroimaging as a sort of lie detector—to expose malingerers or increase payouts in injury-compensation suits.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018
There are also standardized tests that trip up malingerers.
From Slate • Aug. 7, 2012
The malingerers, the malcontents— they always rally around a rebel.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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The Chocolate War
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