malinger

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: verb

[V] (usually be malingering) (disapproving) to pretend to be ill/sick, especially in order to avoid work malingerer noun

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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malingerEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus malingerEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary malingerEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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