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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.
BAT WING BOWLESDANE COOLIDGEOne, of course, can readily see with what facility an individual of the type under discussion could malinger mental symptoms.
STUDIES IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRYBERNARD GLUECKNo man ever essayed to malinger or to shirk a duty to which he had been allotted by the doctor.
SIXTEEN MONTHS IN FOUR GERMAN PRISONSHENRY CHARLES MAHONEY"Sheep," who has been disposed to malinger, is the worst of the lot.
ADVENTURES IN ALASKASAMUEL HALL YOUNGWORDS RELATED TO MALINGER
- circumlocute
- dark
- deceive
- ditch
- duck
- elude
- equivocate
- escape
- evade
- fence
- fend off
- fudge
- get around
- get out of
- give the slip
- hedge
- juke
- lurch
- malinger
- move to the side
- parry
- pussyfoot
- put the move on
- shake
- shake off
- shift
- shirk
- short-circuit
- shuffle
- sidestep
- skip out on
- skirt
- slide
- slip
- swerve
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- trick
- turn aside
- weasel
- circumlocuted
- darked
- deceived
- ditched
- ducked
- eluded
- equivocated
- escaped
- evaded
- fenced
- fended off
- fudged
- gave the slip
- got around
- got out of
- hedged
- juked
- lurched
- malingered
- moved to the side
- parried
- pussyfooted
- put the move on
- shifted
- shirked
- shook
- shook off
- short-circuited
- shuffled
- sidestepped
- skipped out on
- skirted
- slid
- slipped
- swerved
- tergiversated
- tergiversed
- tricked
- turned aside
- weaseled
- accumulated
- aimed
- amassed
- ambled
- be carried along
- coasted
- danced
- drew near
- flickered
- flitted
- flittered
- floated
- flowed
- fluttered
- gadded
- gallivanted
- gathered
- go-that-a-wayed
- gravitated
- hovered
- kicked around
- lingered
- malingered
- meandered
- moseyed
- mucked
- rode
- sailed
- sauntered
- scudded
- skimmed
- slid
- strayed
- strolled
- tended
- wafted
- wandered
- washed
- went with the tide
- be inactive
- be indolent
- be slothful
- be unoccupied
- bum
- bum around
- dally
- dillydally
- do nothing
- dream
- drift
- evade
- fool around
- fritter away
- goldbrick
- hang out
- kill time
- knock around
- let down
- lie
- loaf
- loiter
- loll
- lounge
- lounge around
- malinger
- not lift a finger
- pass time
- piddle
- relax
- saunter
- shirk
- sit around
- slack
- slow down
- stall
- stand around
- stroll
- take it easy
- trifle
- twiddle thumbs
- vegetate
- waste time
- while away hours
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