Malinger

Quick meaning: Malinger is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.

Example Sentences

It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves.

It has been the impression of past investigators that persons who malinger psychosis have latent tendencies for the condition.

And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! / Smoothed by long fingers, / Asleep … tired … or it malingers, / Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.

Word Forms

• malingers
• malingering
• malingered

Synonyms for malinger

Depending on context, synonyms include skulk.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include skulk, feign, play-act, masquerade, counterfeit, missignify.

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