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malingering en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The intentional feigning of an illness or injury for personal gain or to avoid a responsibility, such as work, military service, or legal consequences.
    • Owners also restricted access to medical care by routinely accusing sick blacks of malingering. Slave narratives and planters’ records reveal that an owner faced with a sick slave was likely to believe the illness was feigned. 2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 45:

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malingering en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of malinger
    form of malinger