Malingerer

Word MALINGERER
Character 10
Hyphenation ma lin ger er
Pronunciations /məˈlɪŋɡəɹə/

Definitions and meanings of "Malingerer"

What do we mean by malingerer?

A person who malingers.

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The word "malingerer" in example sentences

In 11 seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Jagr had won two Stanley Cups by the time he had turned 21 and he admittedly became spoiled with the trappings of super-stardom—earning him a reputation as a malingerer. ❋ Mike Sielski (2011)

The word “malingerer” popped into his head, but he tried to put it out of his mind. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

As a globe-trotting malingerer, I have always enjoyed returning from a jaunt abroad with fresh support for popular American stereotypes about foreigners. ❋ Joe Queenan (2011)

Bill Shankly had little patience or sympathy for injured footballers and once called Chris Lawler a "malingerer" when a thigh strain in 1971 restricted the full-back to light training after he had made more than 300 appearances in succession for Liverpool. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It made R. feel even more awful that he knew people suspected him of being a malingerer - the very last person you'd have had the right to accuse of being work-shy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I am not usually a hypochondriac, or a malingerer, I'm glad to say. ❋ Imogen (2009)

The Knicks -- the laughing stock, the abyss of the NBA -- got a new coach who cleaned house and courageously, in a principled manner benched the team's top malingerer, Stephon Marbury. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They made him feel like a malingerer for complaining about his back pain, he says, and "they pretty much classified me as a dirt bag." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Again, those replies would incur two more points toward a possible assessment as a malingerer. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Roy was, at best a malingerer, and a worst a party crasher. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So it was that a decorated war hero with two tours of combat duty becomes a malingerer and a braggert. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This is exactly what has happened to me with my protracted bout of Chronic Biblio-Monochromania (this may not feature in medical textbooks just yet) and I was beginning to feel a bit of a malingerer, mildly fickle and shallow over it all. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But doing so would earn the test-taker two points toward the total of 23 or so that marks a person as a possible malingerer. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Virtually everyone is a malingerer according to this scale," says a leading critic, James Butcher, a retired University of Minnesota psychologist who has published research faulting the Fake Bad Scale. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Curt Fischer, the book by that English malingerer Dawkins...oops, Hawkins? ❋ Unknown (2007)

And Dawkins/Hawkins both Oxbridge, but which? was pure silliness, especially the “malingerer” crack, no attempt at anything Homeric. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Afterwards he invited Caine to audition for the role of Cockney malingerer Private Hook in Zulu. ❋ DAVID BISHOP (2006)

He may be an incurious malingerer with the attention span of a spaniel, but he has the instincts of a Mafia Don. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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