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malinger

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to fake illness to avoid responsibility

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Blackadder: All right, where is the malingering git?

BBC. Blackadder, season 4: General Hospital
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declared that all the outcry was mere malingering, that the girl wanted to ‘play the mistress’ in the house.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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When he saw Pike, one of the new dogs, a clever malingerer and thief, slyly steal a slice of bacon when Perrault's back was turned, he duplicated the performance the following day,

Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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