Meanings
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verb
To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves.
Thesaurus
Word family
Forms
malingerer
Derived forms
malingerermalingeringmalingerormalingery
Related forms
malingering
Etymology
From French malingrer, from adjective malingre (“delicate, fragile”).