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

To shirk or malinger on the man who paid me my wages was a sin, first, against myself, and second, against him. 

From War of the Classes by Jack London

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Smoothed by long fingers, Asleep... tired... or it malingers.

From Poems by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Smoothed by long fingers, Asleep ... tired ... or it malingers, Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.

From Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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

The differentiation of the malingered symptoms from the genuine ones is, as a rule, extremely difficult, and great caution is to be exercised in pronouncing a given individual a malingerer.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck

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

From Smoke Bellew by Jack London

It was heavy work, and, in spite of the fact that I malingered at every opportunity, I was played out.

From The Road by Jack London

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

“People can be mentally ill and malingering; they can be demented and exaggerate,” says Rory Houghtalen, a forensic psychiatrist who consults on criminal legal cases in New York State.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023

One of the warders then reported to Kellerman that Andrew Masondo and I had not been working, and we were to be charged with malingering and insubordination.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela