malingering

MARSHALL: Well, it suggests something called malingering, which is faking.

CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2005 2005

But perhaps the most satisfying conclusion that he made was that Mitchell is suffering from "malingering" -- faking psychological symptoms to avoid criminal prosecution for the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart.

Robin Sax: "The People" Have the Right to a Speedy Trial, Too! 2009

She calls her malingering dad who says Maria is in India having a hip replacement.

Foreign Body-Robin Cook « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008

Some people steal time from their employer, called malingering, or steal goods from their employer, called pilfering.

Creative Capitalism Michael Kinsley with Conor Clarke 2009

Some people steal time from their employer, called malingering, or steal goods from their employer, called pilfering.

Creative Capitalism Michael Kinsley with Conor Clarke 2009

Some people steal time from their employer, called malingering, or steal goods from their employer, called pilfering.

Creative Capitalism Michael Kinsley with Conor Clarke 2009

Were an alleged lunatic standing as a defendant in a criminal suit to use one-tenth of the amount of ingenuity and conscious direction of his symptoms that the average paranoiac uses, he would furnish the champions of the idea of malingering of mental disease with enough material to convict a dozen lunatics.

Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

But the numbers on incapacity benefit who are "malingering" are a minority.

Labour conference live – Sunday 26 September Andrew Sparrow 2010

Any new medical condition is at first scoffed at as "malingering," "hypochondria" or "hysteria," and only slowly becomes established.

Electrosensitives reach out to OEN 2008

Among my disorders are Meniere's Disease and PTSD, both of which were repeatedly misdiagnosed before finally being correctly diagnosed, and among the misdiagnoses were "malingering," (i.e. psychosomatic)

Horses Mouth May 10, 2007 4:47 PM 2007