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

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 Thomas Buford Meteyard

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

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

Now it malingers because of people's concern for the second front.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

Three times already have 1 malingered through medical examinations.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

They malingered, got in the way, delayed, and doubled the work of Kit and Shorty.

From Smoke Bellew by Jack London

There can be no doubt that this man malingered mental symptoms, neither need there be the slightest doubt about his having suffered from an actual mental disorder.

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

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

Staton, who presided over his trial, embraced the view that Girardi was suffering from dementia but also malingering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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

I spent the game near enough to the ball to not get done for malingering, but far enough to avoid having to touch it.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell