malingerer
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“Ye’s lawyers called him a liar, a fraud, and a malingerer in court. His medical records, bank records, and personal family history were dissected, mocked, and vilified,” said attorney Ronald Zambrano in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
Gudetama is a genderless, cartoon egg with a sad face and a shiny yellow butt; a burnout, a slacker, a malingerer, crushed under the weight of their own melancholy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
He thinks you’re telling him he’s a malingerer, you’re drowning in gross tissues, etc.
From Slate ● Mar. 9, 2020
The Wizards’ woes without Nene have upset fans who believe that he is unreliable or even worse, a malingerer.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2013
A cant term for vagabonds, who formerly begged about under pretence of having been discharged destitute from ships and hospitals; whence an idle malingerer wanting to enter the doctor's list is said to "sham Abraham."
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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