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

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 Coolidge, Dane

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

One, of course, can readily see with what facility an individual of the type under discussion could malinger mental symptoms.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard