Definition of "malinger" []

• To feign illness or other incapacity in order to avoid duty or work. (verb-intransitive)

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• ""malinger" with such intensity of purpose, that I feared lest he would kill himself to spite us."
• "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."
• "To shirk or malinger on the man who paid me my wages was a sin, first, against myself, and second, against him."