Meaning of malingerer in English
(Definition of malingerer from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
malingerer | Business English
The article gives advice to HR managers on how to deal successfully with malingerers.
Examples of malingerer
malingerer
He clearly regards the boy as a lazy malingerer.
From NPR
Unlike other nonepileptic seizure patients, malingerers are not suggestible and are not susceptible to influence or persuasion.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Patients who somatize often engender frustration among the medical profession and gain labels such as difficult, functional, supratentorial, heartsink, hysterical, or even malingerers.
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Finally, the fact that malingerers may stand to gain from their behavior is usually evident.
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Among malingerers, errors in seizure behavior tend to be major distortions, whereas other nonepileptic seizure patients have omissions, perseverations, or near-misses.
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There is evidence that seizures due to malingering are under volitional control and are purposeful, and malingerers cannot maintain their ``deficits'' for a prolonged period of time.
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He, in general, divides the cases in to (a) cases of nerve deafness, (b) fixed idea cases, and (c) malingerers.
From Project Gutenberg
Even exaggerators and malingerers must be talked to as if neuropathic.
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He said everybody must feel he was a malingerer, and in fact he felt so himself.
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Yet under the burning appeal of her eyes they flushed as though they had been self-confessed malingerers.
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Almost all belligerents issued malingerer's handbooks during the war.
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Most liars and malingerers did not take it that way.
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His companion, who seems covered with sores and who claims to be on a pilgrimage to a healing shrine, is clearly a scamp and malingerer.
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Thoroughly squelched, the malingerer flushed, mumbled an apology and held out his hand.
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He is obese and a malingerer to such an extent that he is almost an imbecile--worthlessness, obesity, and imbecility and laziness.
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simulateur/-euse, faux/-ausse malade…
hastalık taslayan…
simulant…
simulant, -ka…
pjækker…
orang yang pura-pura…
คนแกล้งป่วย…
người giả vờ ốm để trốn việc…
symulant…
simulant…
orang yang pura-pura sakit…
der Drückeberger…
en som er skulkesyk…
симулянт…
