malinger
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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
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
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 London, Jack
There isn't a sick man on board except one I've persuaded to malinger to keep me out of mischief.
From A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions by Bartimeus
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