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Grammar : Verb |
Spell : muh-ling-ger |
Phonetic Transcription : məˈlɪŋ gər |
Definition of malinger
Origin :- 1820, from French malingrer "to suffer," perhaps also "pretend to be ill," from malingre "ailing, sickly" (13c.), of uncertain origin, possibly a blend of mingre "sickly, miserable" and malade "ill." Mingre is itself a blend of maigre "meager" + haingre "sick, haggard," possibly from Germanic (cf. Middle High German hager "thin"). The sense evolution may be through notion of beggars with sham sores. Related: Malingered; malingering; malingerer (1785).
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- "Sheep," who has been disposed to malinger, is the worst of the lot.
- Extract from : « Adventures in Alaska » by Samuel Hall Young
- It was quick work; but Bowles had a college education—he had been only six hours a cowboy when he learned to malinger on the job.
- Extract from : « Bat Wing Bowles » by Dane Coolidge
- One, of course, can readily see with what facility an individual of the type under discussion could malinger mental symptoms.
- Extract from : « Studies in Forensic Psychiatry » by Bernard Glueck
- No man ever essayed to malinger or to shirk a duty to which he had been allotted by the doctor.
- Extract from : « Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons » by Henry Charles Mahoney
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