Sample Sentences for
malinger
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  • "We can't what?" Phoebe said. "Malinger."  (source)
    Malinger = avoid responsibilities by pretending to be sick
  • Ed Seger, the doctor who examined George, mysteriously concluded that he was not mentally ill but was "malingering" or faking symptoms of mental illness.  (source)
    malingering = avoiding responsibilities by pretending to be sick
  • One night there was a heavy snowfall, and in the morning Pike, the malingerer, did not appear.  (source)
    malingerer = someone who avoids responsibilities by pretending to be sick
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  • "Malingering at the quarry," he might say, at which Van Rensburg would look smug.  (source)
    Malingering = avoiding duties by pretending to be sick
  • In the company office there was a crop of minor charges and requests for compassionate leave; while it was still half-light, day began with the whine of the malingerer and the glum face and fixed eye of the man with a grievance.†  (source)
  • With a beautiful girl I could have consoled myself that she was out of my league; that I was so haunted and stirred even by her plainness suggested—ominously—a love more binding than physical affection, some tar-pit of the soul where I might flop around and malinger for years.†  (source)
  • The malingerers, the malcontents— they always rally around a rebel.†  (source)
  • Smoothed by long fingers, Asleep ...tired ...or it malingers, Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.†  (source)
  • We've issued administrative punishments for malingering, but this is more like mutiny.  (source)
  • Johnnie told me that any time a malingerer wanted to get out of work he told you he was sick and you gave him a day off.†  (source)
  • "I'm sick. Honest," she said. "It might be cancer." "Phoebe, I know you're worried, but there's nothing we can do but wait. We have to go on with things. We can't malinger."  (source)
    malinger = avoid responsibilities by pretending to be sick
  • Too many fashionable malingerers were already attempting to obtain admission.†  (source)
  • No malingering?†  (source)
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