Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated;
- Example: "they developed a test to detect malingering"[syn: malingering, skulking]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Malinger \Ma*lin"ger\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. MAlingered; p. pr.
& vb. n. Malingering.]
To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or
inability.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
malingering
n 1: evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated;
"they developed a test to detect malingering" [syn:
malingering, skulking]