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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
  • We've issued administrative punishments for malingering, but this is more like mutiny.  (source)
    malingering = avoiding duties 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
  • 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
  • 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)
    malinger = avoid responsibilities and duties -- typically by pretending to be ill
  • Did it exist, were these men simply malingerers, were they predisposed to psychological unfitness, could they be cured, what had they seen that caused them but not others to succumb?†  (source)
    malingerers = people who avoid responsibilities and duties by pretending to be ill
  • Smoothed by long fingers, Asleep ...tired ...or it malingers, Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.†  (source)
    malingers = avoids responsibilities and duties -- typically by pretending to be ill
  • No malingering?†  (source)
    malingering = avoiding responsibilities and duties by pretending to be sick
  • She considered Lara a malingerer.†  (source)
    malingerer = someone who avoids responsibilities and duties by pretending to be ill
  • Usually Mr. Birkway would let people go to the bathroom or to the nurse, but this time he said, "Let's not malinger!"  (source)
    malinger = avoid responsibilities
  • The malingerers, the malcontents— they always rally around a rebel.†  (source)
    malingerers = people who avoid responsibilities and duties by pretending to be ill
  • She always walks up the center of the ramp, between the rows of parked cars, so that the EBGOC boys won't think she's lurking, loitering, skulking, malingering, or smoking.†  (source)
    malingering = avoiding responsibilities and duties by pretending to be sick
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