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Meanings of malingerer in English

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escaquejat
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Someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity.

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        Usage of malingerer in English
        1
        Thoroughly squelched, the malingerer flushed, mumbled an apology and held out his hand.
        The Long Chance
        2
        I am not a lunatic, not a malingerer, but a demon?
        Number9Dream
        3
        Pemberton is no malingerer, Pemberton said as Serena slowly raised herself to a sitting position.
        Serena
        4
        To some of them the neurotic patient was a swinger of the lead, a malingerer.
        A Dominie in Doubt
        5
        The fellow's a palpable malingerer, and his being here makes it ever so much worse.
        The Red Acorn
        6
        The Portugee cook, sick of fever- Ithinkhe's a blighted malingerer-wasthe only creature there.
        Jaffery
        7
        But when it came to facing the physical hardships of the North he was a malingerer.
        The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North
        8
        Nor could I endure to be a malingerer.
        A Monk of Fife / Being the Chronicle Written by Norman Leslie of...
        9
        The doctor said that she was undoubtedly a malingerer that just wanted a vacation at a hospital.
        The new yorker
        10
        One night there was a heavy snowfall, and in the morning Pike, the malingerer, did not appear.
        The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
        11
        The resources of the professional malingerer are exceedingly varied, and testify to no small amount of cunning.
        Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
        12
        I became, in fact, a chronic malingerer.
        Junky
        13
        The order of the day was coöperation, team-work; in the grand advance she was no straggler, no malingerer.
        On the Stairs
        14
        As it was not in Peter to be a malingerer he was left in peace, while we picked apples.
        The Story Girl
        15
        When the last malingerer arrived with yawns still unfinished, Prissy seized upon a temporary hush and began to laugh.
        We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
        16
        Pike, the malingerer, leaped upon the crippled animal, breaking its neck with a quick flash of teeth and a jerk.
        The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
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