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
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
It used to be said, in the old times, that 'it was human nature' to shirk and malinger and loaf, but we have found that it is no such thing.
From A Traveler from Altruria: Romance by Howells, William Dean
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 London, Jack
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