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Immobile derrière un arbre, le petit Chose regardait passer les belles dames, tout malingre et tout honteux dans son habit râpé.
Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant Alphonse Daudet 1868
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{134} [‘Malinger’, French _malingre_ (mistakenly derived above), stands for old French _mal-heingre_ (maliciously or falsely ill, feigning sickness), which is from Latin _male aeger_, with an intrusive
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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