Definition of "malingered" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of malinger. (verb)

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• "E. B. DuBois, who explained it as the inevitable consequence of forced labor: All observers spoke of the fact that the slaves were slow and churlish; that they wasted material and malingered at their work."
• "They malingered, got in the way, delayed, and doubted the work of Kit and Shorty."
• "I never malingered when pulling on a rope, for I knew the eagle eyes of my forecastle mates were squinting for just such evidences of my inferiority."