He's not really ill. He's just a malingerer.
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Malingerer
//məˈlɪŋɡəɹə//
Synonyms for "malingerer" (58 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (29)
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Translations
16 translations across 9 languages.
Czech
1 entries- simulant noun (person who malingers)
Danish
1 entries- simulant noun (person who malingers)
German
4 entries- Scheinkranke noun (person who malingers)
- Scheinkranker noun (person who malingers)
- Simulant noun (person who malingers)
- Simulatin noun (person who malingers)
Hungarian
2 entries- szimuláns noun (person who malingers)
- színlelt beteg noun (person who malingers)
Macedonian
1 entries- симулант noun (person who malingers)
Polish
2 entries- symulant noun (person who malingers)
- symulantka noun (person who malingers)
Russian
2 entries- симуля́нт noun (person who malingers)
- симуля́нтка noun (person who malingers)
Swedish
1 entries- simulant noun (person who malingers)
Ukrainian
2 entries- симуля́нт noun (person who malingers)
- симуля́нтка noun (person who malingers)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Tom is such a malingerer that you can't count on him to get anything done, no matter what promises he makes.
Source: tatoeba (3890591)
It is telling, in this context of rising rates of mental illness, that New Labour committed itself, early in its third term in government, to removing people from Incapacity Benefit, implying that many, if not most, claimants are malingerers.
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