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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That he malingered every frank psychotic symptom which he manifested is beyond doubt a fact, even though he would not have admitted so much himself.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck

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

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

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