📚 Malinger, verb. 🔉 /məˈlɪŋɡə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Pretend to be ill in order to escape duty or work. ❗️ Examples: 1. People who had psychosomatic complaints were probably malingering. 2. Earlier this year a poll found that 40% of small businesses thought employees were malingering when they took sick leave. 3. There's a fine line between what's classed as malingering and what is accepted as genuine illness. 4. Another woman, with early symptoms of Bubonic plague, was told she was malingering. 5. Is Miss Mason suffering from Chronic Pain Disorder or is she malingering…? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic