malinger

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

X For weeks, for months I have not seen the sun; The minatory dawns are leprous pale; The felon days malinger one by one; How like a dream Life is! how vain! how stale!

From Rhymes of a Rolling Stone by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

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

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 Meteyard, Thomas Buford