malinger

• POS: Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: ma=lin=ger

CIDE DICTIONARY

malinger, v. i. 

 To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

malinger, v.intr. exaggerate or feign illness in order to escape duty, work, etc.

Derivative

malingerer n.

Etymology

back-form. f. malingerer app. f. F malingre, perh. formed as MAL- + haingre weak

THESAURUS

malinger

abandon, cut, dodge, dog it, duck, duck duty, get out of, goldbrick, goof off, jump, leave, leave loose ends, leave undone, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, miss, not pull fair, omit, pass over, pass up, pretermit, procrastinate, shirk, skip, skulk, slack, slide out of, slip out of, sneak out of, soldier, trifle, welsh

ROGET THESAURUS

malinger

Falsehood

VB be false, be a liar, speak falsely, tell a lie, lie, fib, lie like a trooper, swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness, misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent, belie, falsify, pervert, distort, put a false construction upon (misinterpret), prevaricate, equivocate, quibble, palter, palter to the understanding, repondre en Normand, trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose, garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to, give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon, color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider, varnish right and puzzle wrong, exaggerate, blague, invent, fabricate, trump up, get up, force, fake, hatch, concoct, romance, cry 'wolf!', dissemble, dissimulate, feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe, play possum, play false, play a double game, coquet, act a part, play a part, affect, simulate, pass off for, counterfeit, sham, make a show of, malinger, say the grapes are sour, cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror, hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors, commend the poisoned chalice to the lips, ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces, deceive.