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Examples of malingerer
malingerer
Hunt was a malingerer, Johnson rested on his laurels and Reynolds seemed apathetic.
From the jsonline.com
Before this season, some people in the organization thought Dansby was a malingerer.
From the sportingnews.com
I live with a spouse who believes DID doesn't exist and that I am a lazy malingerer.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
As popular as it is to call Otah a malingerer, we don't know if he could have played.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Even speculation he was a malingerer for not playing on a stress fracture that postseason.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Yet the psychic pain he has borne from being depicted as a malingerer and a mope has not subsided.
From the signonsandiego.com
Some said he should see a psychiatrist because he was a malingerer, lazy, depressed, manipulative or overly anxious.
From the stltoday.com
The popular image of the typical dole recipient as a hale male malingerer is more than 99% myth by Government arithmetic.
From the time.com
I have never been a malingerer.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity
- (malingering) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated; "they developed a test to detect malingering"
- Malingering is a medical term that refers to fabricating or exaggerating the symptoms of mental or physical disorders for a variety of "secondary gain" motives, which may include financial compensation (often tied to fraud); avoiding school, work or military service; obtaining drugs; getting ...
- (malingering) Faking or conscious deception; voluntary production of symptoms for a rationally considered goal, such as financial recompense, avoidance of responsibility, etc.
- (MALINGERING) Knowingly pretending to be physically or mentally ill to avoid some unpleasant duty or responsibility, or for economic benefit.
- (Malingering) A conscious simulation of an illness (with no organic pathology present) used to avoid an unpleasant situation or for personal gain.
- (Malingering) Faking illness or disability, but this generally covers up some other real mental health problem.
- (Malingering) Pretending to be ill, usually in order to avoid work or to gain attention or access to drugs.
- (Malingering) The term given to an individual who exaggerates mental or physical symptoms for personal gain such as compensation, avoiding work and obtaining prescription drugs.
