malingerer

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Anybody who was not a malingerer was voted a fool, an altruist.

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  1. One who shams illness, especially for the purpose of shirking work or avoiding duty. Doubtless his church will be no hospital, … Nor his religion but an ambulance To fetch life's wounded and malingerers in. Lowell, The Cathedral. The experienced senses of the surgeon quickly detected the malingerers and the men who were only slightly indisposed. G. Kennan, The Century, XXXVI. 869.

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  • I have mental illness and yet I am not weak, a malingerer, violent, irresponsible or a would-be murderer. —  www.mentallyinteresting.org.uk | Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive
  • I wonder what will the brotherhood do, you ensure that such a malingerer owes up to his duty. —  THE INTELLIGENT SINGAPOREAN
  • There's nothing worse, because you know people are looking at you like you're a malingerer. —  MVN
  • Pat was lynx-eyed for a malingerer in his Honour's service; and, indeed, where the rule was so easy and pleasant there was no excuse for malingering. —  Mary Gray
  • I mean to say that the material observed by me came to my notice within the confines of a hospital for the insane, and that my failure, therefore, to see the so-called pure malingerer is probably due to this circumstance. —  Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
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