Don't malinger by making your sprain sound worse than it is.
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Malinger
//məˈlɪŋɡə//
Synonyms for "malinger" (38 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (19)
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6 entriesderived
4 entriesis a
2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
31 translations across 18 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَمَارَضَ verb (to feign illness)
Bulgarian
1 entries- преструвам се на болен verb (to feign illness)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 詐病 /诈病 verb (to feign illness)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 裝病 /装病 verb (to feign illness)
Czech
2 entries- hodit se marod verb (to feign illness)
- simulovat verb (to feign illness)
Finnish
2 entries- teeskennellä sairasta verb (to feign illness)
- tekeytyä sairaaksi verb (to feign illness)
French
3 entries- faire le malade verb (to feign illness)
- feindre la maladie verb (to feign illness)
- se faire porter pâle verb (to feign illness)
German
1 entries- simulieren verb (to feign illness)
Hungarian
4 entries- betegnek adja ki magát verb (to feign illness)
- szimulál verb (to feign illness)
- színlel verb (to feign illness)
- tettet verb (to feign illness)
Irish
1 entries- bheith ag meathlóireacht verb (to feign illness)
Japanese
1 entries- 仮病を使う verb (to feign illness)
Korean
1 entries- 꾀병을 부리다 verb (to feign illness)
Macedonian
1 entries- симулира verb (to feign illness)
Māori
1 entries- whakangehengehe verb (to feign illness)
Polish
3 entries- symulować verb (to feign illness)
- udawać chorego verb (to feign illness)
- udać chorego verb (to feign illness)
Portuguese
1 entries- fingir estar doente verb (to feign illness)
Russian
4 entries- прики́дываться больны́м verb (to feign illness)
- прики́нуться больны́м verb (to feign illness)
- притвори́ться больны́м verb (to feign illness)
- притворя́ться больны́м verb (to feign illness)
Spanish
1 entries- hacerse el enfermo verb (to feign illness)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves.
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And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! / Smoothed by long fingers, / Asleep … tired … or it malingers, / Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
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It has been the impression of past investigators that persons who malinger psychosis have latent tendencies for the condition.
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