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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of malinger.

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Examples

  • But, within limits, they may loaf and malinger, and, as scabs, are exceeded by the machine, which never loafs or malingers, and which is the ideally perfect scab.

    THE SCAB 2010

  • As for malingers, every supervisor has them -- in the military and outside it!

    Archive 2008-03-01 Tia Nevitt 2008

  • As for malingers, every supervisor has them -- in the military and outside it!

    An Interview with Sandra McDonald! Tia Nevitt 2008

  • It is sufficient for the type of individual who malingers to merely say the word, and the most fantastic creation of his fancy immediately becomes a reality and is apperceived by him as such.

    Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

  • 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.

    Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

  • The following study is undertaken less for the purpose of discussing the psychology of malingering than with the object in view of illustrating by means of clinical records the type of individual who malingers.

    Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

  • 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.

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

  • But, within limits, they may loaf and malinger, and, as scabs, are exceeded by the machine, which never loafs or malingers, and which is the ideally perfect scab.

    THE SCAB 1905

  • 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.

    The Scab 1905

  • But, within limits, they may loaf and malinger, and, as scabs, are exceeded by the machine, which never loafs or malingers, and which is the ideally perfect scab.

    The Scab 1904

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