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

It was quick work; but Bowles had a college education—he had been only six hours a cowboy when he learned to malinger on the job.

From Bat Wing Bowles by Dane Coolidge

No man ever essayed to malinger or to shirk a duty to which he had been allotted by the doctor.

From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Henry Charles Mahoney

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 William Dean Howells

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

Next reflect upon the opposite reputation of his accusers, and I venture to say malingers, though in truth there is but one, not sustained by the other.

From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by John Turvill Adams

It malingers because of weakness, playfulness, imitation, egotism, jealousy, envy, and revenge.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Three times already have 1 malingered through medical examinations.

From Time Magazine Archive

In other words, there was no doubt that the patient malingered, but there was likewise no doubt that he suffered from a psychosis.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck

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

This is one of the factors which determines the growing realization among present-day psychiatrists of the extreme difficulty to state in a given case which is malingered and which genuine in the symptomatology.

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

Detecting that someone is malingering is not an exact science.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023

Each day over the next few months, Van Rensburg would charge one of us for insubordination or malingering.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela