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

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 Bernard Glueck

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

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

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

From Poems 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

It was not that the men malingered, they simply, neither of them, had the knack of keeping the work going at top speed and top effectiveness.

From A Man to His Mate by Stockton Mulford

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

This man unquestionably suffered from a psychosis, and yet there is likewise no doubt that he malingered.

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

Rothman did not have Alzheimer's, nor was he malingering, Duara wrote.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023

Ed Seger, the doctor who examined George, mysteriously concluded that he was not mentally ill but was "malingering" or faking symptoms of mental illness.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson