malingerverb [ I ]
uk/məˈlɪŋ.ɡər/us/məˈlɪŋ.ɡɚ/disapprovingto pretend to be ill in order to avoid having to work:
And is he really ill or just malingering?
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Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- falsify
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- pose as sb
- professed
- purport
- quack
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Avoiding action
malingerer
noun [ C ] uk/məˈlɪŋ.ɡər.ər/us/məˈlɪŋ.ɡɚ.ɚ/
I'm sure she thinks I'm a malingerer.