malinger

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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

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 London, Jack

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 Meteyard, Thomas Buford

There isn't a sick man on board except one I've persuaded to malinger to keep me out of mischief.

From A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions by Bartimeus