1861 T. J. Graham Pract. Med. 602 There are three conditions from which it is important to distinguish it—from apoplexy, from hysteria, and..from malingering.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 150 Malingering is generally easily detected by one who is accustomed to examine nervous cases.

1941 J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man xi. 238 Physical shell-shock and malingering.

1985 R. D. Laing Wisdom, Madness & Folly iv. 95 Malingering could become a major issue... A lot of soldiers seemed prepared to go to almost any lengths to get out.

1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiv. viii. 754 Karl Edzard, Prince of East Friesland, long a weak malingering creature, died, rather suddenly.

1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 60 [He] mopes about like a malingering lag.

a1930 D. H. Lawrence in Virginia Q. Rev. (1941) 17 i. Suppl. 43/1 You are a base, malingering pulamiting wretch.

1997 New Yorker 28 Apr. 111/3 Malingering Dreyfusards, and the embittered foes of decolonization like the former French-Algerian ‘pieds noirs’.

1928 W. Empson in Granta 2 Nov. 74 Removing the malingering article from the end of his fork, I replaced it as unobstrusively as the circumstances permitted.

1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 June 629/2 The account..has neither that malingering suspicion of sentimentalists that attaches to religious themes, nor the tendency to be clever at the expense of the past usually irresistible to up-daters of history.

1992 Gramophone June 30 Very much against the malingering influence of Leningrad's cultural bureaucrats and an army of silently disapproving critics, he headed straight for uncut Mussorgsky.