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Definition of Malingerer
1. Noun. Someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity.
Generic synonyms: Shirker, Slacker
Derivative terms: Malinger, Sham, Sham, Skulk
Definition of Malingerer
1. n. In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.
Definition of Malingerer
1. Noun. A person who malingers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Malingerer
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Malingerer
1. One who engages in malingering. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malingerer
Literary usage of Malingerer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Under the Red Crescent: Adventures of an English Surgeon with the Turkish by Charles Snodgrass Ryan, John Sandes (1897)
"... Official Dinner —Off to the Front—A Compulsory Shave—My Charger—The March to
Sofia—My First Patient—Prescription for a Malingerer—Mehemet Ali—My Soldier ..."
2. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck (1916)
"CHAPTER IV THE Malingerer: A CLINICAL STUDY THE following study is undertaken
less for the purpose of discussing the psychology of malingering than with the ..."
3. Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity by Richard Alfred Davenport (1837)
"... by actual cautery, of a Malingerer—Simulation of Consumption and other
Diseases—Feigned Deafness—Detection of a Man who simulated Deafness—Instances of ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1864)
"Another which well illustrates both the perseverance of the malingerer and the
... Such a man is no less a malingerer, but he declares his own sentence, ..."