Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who shams illness, especially for the purpose of shirking work or avoiding duty.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who malingers.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity
Examples
“The word “malingerer” popped into his head, but he tried to put it out of his mind.”
“In 11 seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Jagr had won two Stanley Cups by the time he had turned 21 and he admittedly became spoiled with the trappings of super-stardom—earning him a reputation as a malingerer.”
“Bill Shankly had little patience or sympathy for injured footballers and once called Chris Lawler a "malingerer" when a thigh strain in 1971 restricted the full-back to light training after he had made more than 300 appearances in succession for Liverpool.”
The Guardian: England's crocks could have helped the 'golden generation' to shine | Rob Bagchi
“As a globe-trotting malingerer, I have always enjoyed returning from a jaunt abroad with fresh support for popular American stereotypes about foreigners.”
The Wall Street Journal: French Twist: Meet Monsieur Nice Guy
“It made R. feel even more awful that he knew people suspected him of being a malingerer - the very last person you'd have had the right to accuse of being work-shy.”
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
“The Knicks -- the laughing stock, the abyss of the NBA -- got a new coach who cleaned house and courageously, in a principled manner benched the team's top malingerer, Stephon Marbury.”
Dave Hollander: New York Sportswriters Missing Forest Through the Trees
“They made him feel like a malingerer for complaining about his back pain, he says, and "they pretty much classified me as a dirt bag.”
“I am not usually a hypochondriac, or a malingerer, I'm glad to say.”
“Roy was, at best a malingerer, and a worst a party crasher.”
“So it was that a decorated war hero with two tours of combat duty becomes a malingerer and a braggert.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘malingerer’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Bad Options
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
liar, cheat, traitor, arsonist, felon, braggard, thief, profiteer, impostor, phony, fraud, culprit and 212 more...
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-erer
words that finish with a double er: an usual list of doers
ricerer, ponderer, echoerer, eerierer, elderer, eyelinerer, alterer, blusterer, chatterer, offerer, answerer, bickerer and 100 more...
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New words
new words or spelling issues
voluble, Metagrobolize, salubrious, calumny, fugacity, withdrawal, bourse, hypertrophy, leitmotif, argot, improvident, damask and 234 more...
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Unsavory characters
absconder, aretaloger, arriviste, avaunter, bamboozler, bandit, banger, barbarian, barmecide, barrator, beldam, blatherskite and 190 more...
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Duplicated Endings
Not an exhaustive list (there are probably scores of -erers and -ededs and -eses and -osos).
slyly, queue, caterer, malingerer, needed, stampeded, theses, cheeses, virtuosos, crisis, panini, banana and 9 more...
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Misanthropic
Lovecraft, Lovecraftian, bete noire
Lovecraftian, bête noire, festinate, hathos, misogynist, foredoom, decorticate, malingerer, nemophilist, mendicant, pendragon, stultify and 27 more...
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slackagogo's Words
agelast, aggiornamento, zaftig, wowserism, vox barbara, verbigeration, tchotchke, tautology, sycophant, spoonerism, solipsism, sobriquet and 288 more...
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ICE
quincunx, adoxography, panjundrum, breloque, surd, scripturient, rousant, favrile, embouchure, aquarelle, griffonage, sussultatory and 230 more...
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~~Olde-Fashioned Insults~~
ragamuffin, muttonchops, tatterdemalion, nincompoop, whippersnapper, bootlicker, backscratcher, loggerhead, weisenheimer, hornswoggler, thimblerigger, quacksalver and 111 more...
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madmelanie's Words
monkey, folderol, snark, snarky, flibbertigibbet, faith, asshat, pirouette, avuncular, exegesis, memento mori, verisimilitude and 379 more...
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Ny New Words
From Barron Wordlist the New Words
lap, lank, languor, languish, lancet, lance, lampoon, larceny, larder, largess, lascivious, latitude and 120 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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frequent toefl
Words that I do not know or unsure for toefl
appurtenances, aptitude, arbitrary, arboretum, argot, arrears, avocation, avuncular, badger, bait, warden, bane and 428 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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