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

It used to be said, in the old times, that 'it was human nature' to shirk and malinger and loaf, but we have found that it is no such thing.

From A Traveler from Altruria: Romance by Howells, William Dean

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 Mahoney, Henry Charles

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

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

Still, nobody would think for one moment that the child malingers when it is unable to answer questions, though these might concern well-known facts.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard

Next reflect upon the opposite reputation of his accusers, and I venture to say malingers, though in truth there is but one, not sustained by the other.

From The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance by Adams, John Turvill

Three times already have 1 malingered through medical examinations.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has never sulked, malingered, strutted, whined, wheedled or referred to himself in the third person.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is highly doubtful whether proper means will ever be evolved to enable one to differentiate accurately between that which is genuine and that which is malingered in cases like, for instance, the foregoing.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard

It was heavy work, and, in spite of the fact that I malingered at every opportunity, I was played out.

From The Road by London, Jack

This man unquestionably suffered from a psychosis, and yet there is likewise no doubt that he malingered.

From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard

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

Rothman did not have Alzheimer's, nor was he malingering, Duara wrote.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023

Several times his officers looked closely at him for malingering, but no charge was brought.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck