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

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

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

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

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

It is sufficient for the type of individual who malingers to merely say the word, and the most fantastic creation of his fancy immediately becomes a reality and is apperceived by him as such.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck

The following study is undertaken less for the purpose of discussing the psychology of malingering than with the object in view of illustrating by means of clinical records the type of individual who malingers.

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

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

This confusion and difficulty of differentiation between actual mental disease and malingered symptoms may manifest itself in two ways.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck

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

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 had previously ruled Girardi had some cognitive impairment but was competent to stand trial and even showed signs of malingering, or exaggerating, his dementia symptoms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024

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

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