Sample Sentences formalinger (editor-reviewed)
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They accused me of malingering and insisted I visit their doctor.malingering = avoiding responsibilities and duties by pretending to be sick
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She estimates that about a third of those making a legal claim for a pain disorder are malingering.
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We distinguish between pure and partial malingering of post-traumatic stress. Are symptoms real, feigned or exaggerated?
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"We can't what?" Phoebe said. "Malinger." (source)Malinger = avoid responsibilities by pretending to be sick
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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The malingerers, the malcontents— they always rally around a rebel.† (source)
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Smoothed by long fingers, Asleep ...tired ...or it malingers, Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.† (source)
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We've issued administrative punishments for malingering, but this is more like mutiny. (source)
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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)
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"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
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Too many fashionable malingerers were already attempting to obtain admission.† (source)
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No malingering?† (source)
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