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What is another word for
malingering
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Verb
Present participle for to feign illness, injury or incapacitation in order to avoid work or an obligation
Present participle for to avoid work or an obligation by feigning illness, injury or incapacitation
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
Present participle for to spend one's time in an aimless, idle way
Noun
The action of staying away from school without good reason
Adjective
Abnormally anxious about one's health
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to feign illness, injury or incapacitation in order to avoid work or an obligation
faking illness
feigning illness
pretending to be ill
swinging the lead
pretending to be an invalid
putting it on
taking a sickie
shamming
shirking
goldbricking
skulking
skiving
“He equates a condition called chronic fatigue syndrome with a propensity to
malinger
.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to avoid work or an obligation by feigning illness, injury or incapacitation
shirking
skiving
skulking
dodging
goldbricking
evading
sidestepping
shunning
ducking
shamming
playing truant
playing hookey
wagging
truanting
skiving off
goofing off
bunking off
playing the wag
scrimshanking
cutting
dodging the column
bobbing off
absenting yourself
swinging the lead
mitching off
playing hooky
avoiding work
missing
skipping
ditching
mitching
deserting
bunking
mooching
blowing off
missing school
skipping classes
cutting class
eluding
running away
avoiding
eschewing
hopping the wag
playing the hop
hooking Jack
going missing
staying away from school
bagging it
cheating
pussyfooting
shuffling off
getting around
slipping
sloughing off
parrying
slacking
bludging
idling
more ❯
“No man ever essayed to
malinger
or to shirk a duty to which he had been allotted by the doctor.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
feigning
faking
simulating
pretending
shamming
affecting
dissembling
counterfeiting
acting
assuming
bluffing
imitating
professing
dissimulating
posing
posturing
masquerading
fabricating
playing
forging
inventing
devising
fronting
kidding
messing
putting on
passing for
play-acting
putting it on
playing possum
giving the appearance of
putting on airs
putting up a front
four-flushing
making a pretence of
playing at
making a show of
doing a bit
going through the motions
giving appearance of
making show of
putting on act
going through the motions of
putting on a false display
mocking
aping
swinging the lead
putting up a front of
making like
faking it
putting on an act
falsifying
impersonating
lying
mimicking
misrepresenting
playacting
disguising
concocting
putting on a front
doing
making up
adopting
prevaricating
making out
equivocating
deceiving
trumping up
putting on a false front
spoofing
acting like
masking
veiling
hiding
cloaking
letting on
concealing
fudging
fibbing
purporting
dittoing
camouflaging
mirroring
pretending to be
doing like
dressing up
taking on
acting out
making as if
taking off
making out like
passing oneself off as
parodying
caricaturing
reproducing
cheating
misleading
burlesquing
obscuring
striking
misstating
suppressing
whitewashing
travestying
contriving
hatching
exaggerating
hamming
personating
telling untruth
coining
conjuring up
masquerading as
posing as
shucking and jiving
telling a white lie
covering up
playing the part
letting on like
passing off
creating out of thin air
putting up a smoke screen
sending up
hoaxing
claiming
pulling
posturing as
seeming to be
bearding
dreaming up
pretending to have
aspiring to
professing to have
copping
making a show
making a pretense
professing to be
deluding
laying it on thick
claiming falsely
faking out
exhibiting
putting on a pretense
playing to the gallery
fooling
mimeoing
defrauding
presenting a false front
presenting a false face
portraying
scheming
orchestrating
manufacturing
designing
constructing
affecting the role of
assuming the role of
displaying
favouring
UK
creating
favoring
US
stealing
copying
suggesting
lifting
featuring
fencing
parroting
cribbing
resembling
pirating
borrowing
staging
going like
embodying
developing
acting as if
acting as though
taking up
monkeying
satirizing
US
showboating
knocking off
glossing over
mocking up
becoming
showing
grandstanding
attitudinizing
doing a take-off
assuming the role
reflecting
repeating
lampooning
laying on
downplaying
varnishing
veneering
minimizing
US
miming
hamming it up
doing an impression
doing likewise
following in footsteps
playing a part
doing an impression of
modeling after
patterning after
trying to be like
doubling as
turning into
coming to have
screening
secreting
sugarcoating
extenuating
airbrushing
stonewalling
shrouding
showing off
pussyfooting
covering
minimising
UK
behaving affectedly
striking an attitude
assuming an attitude
taking off as
striking a pose
playing the part of
disguising yourself
copping an attitude
hushing up
sweeping under the rug
soft-pedalling
soft-pedaling
de-emphasizing
keeping dark
sweeping under the carpet
keeping quiet about
keeping secret
keeping a lid on
drawing a veil over
guying
hoking
satirising
UK
paltering
conning
jiving
perjuring
promoting
planting
shovelling
UK
shoveling
US
telling stories
stretching the truth
telling untruths
telling a fib
departing from the truth
forswearing oneself
speaking with forked tongue
telling a little white lie
telling a lie
inventing a story
making up a story
not telling the truth
pulling the wool over someone's eyes
telling a terminological inexactitude
pulling someone's leg
creating fiction
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to spend one's time in an aimless, idle way
loafing
idling
lounging
lazing
lolling
dawdling
dallying
chilling
chillin
relaxing
bumming
lazying
dillydallying
footling
droning
loitering
vegetating
drifting
slacking
mooching
skiving
sauntering
stalling
trifling
goldbricking
strolling
dreaming
evading
piddling
shirking
kicking back
hanging about
vegging out
goofing off
kicking around
wasting time
hacking around
hanging around
doing nothing
killing time
taking it easy
lounging around
slowing down
hanging out
lying around
frittering away time
sitting around
bumming around
whiling away the time
passing time
fooling around
hanging round
mooching about
mooching around
frittering away
twiddling thumbs
letting down
knocking around
taking things easy
whiling away hours
standing around
not lifting a finger
lying
unwinding
vegging
daydreaming
basking
dossing
loafing around
lying about
loafing about
lolling about
lounging about
lolling around
marking time
piddling around
whiling away the hours
piddling about
fooling away
lazing around
lazing about
lollygagging
pottering
languishing
lingering
batting
stagnating
tarrying
moping
sprawling
mooning
creeping
waiting
shilly-shallying
dilly-dallying
idling away time
filling in time
passing the time
sitting on one's hands
idling away the hours
consuming time
amusing oneself
chilling out
messing around
whiling away time
delaying
lagging
fiddling
wandering
meandering
slouching
mouldering
UK
crawling
diddling
degenerating
frittering
dragging
poking
slummocking
ambling
lallygagging
drooping
reclining
stooging
moldering
US
slouching about
slouching around
resting
staying
batting around
batting about
going to seed
frittering time away
whiling away
kicking your heels
doing nothing in particular
putting off
vacillating
deteriorating
existing
hibernating
decaying
weakening
hanging
remaining
hovering
frequenting
haunting
skulking
futzing
chillaxing
stooging around
going to pot
burning daylight
lying dormant
fiddling around
procrastinating
messing about
lying down on job
whiling
puttering
taking a break
taking a breather
putting your feet up
dogging it
taking five
boondoggling
bludging
trailing
pottering about
toddling
pottering around
diddle-daddling
hanging fire
plodding
sitting back
flopping about
flopping around
sunbathing
pottering round
sitting back and do nothing
resting on your oars
fannying about
bobbing off
fooling with
trifling with
playing games
fooling about
horsing around
shlepping along
taking your time
getting no place fast
sitting on one's butt
scrounging around
dragging your feet
warming a chair
reposing
outspanning
sunning
warming oneself
roaming
rambling
roving
sunning yourself
toasting yourself
traipsing
ranging
swimming in
spreading out
stretching out
gallivanting
cruising
galavanting
floating
straying
straggling
deviating
maundering
gadding about
knocking about
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Noun
▲
The action of staying away from school without good reason
truancy
absence
skiving
absenteeism
non-attendance
truanting
wagging
bunking off
ditching
shirking
nonattendance
playing truant
goofing off
playing hookey
absence without leave
playing the wag
nonappearance
truantry
hooky
default
French leave
playing hooky
AWOL
cutting class
desertion
defection
vacancy
skipping
no show
unexcused absence
class skipping
being AWOL
class cutting
Adjective
▲
Abnormally anxious about one's health
hypochondriac
hypochondriacal
hypochondric
valetudinarian
valetudinary
neurotic
health-obsessed
preoccupied with ill health
anxious about one's health
hipped
hyppish
hippish
obsessed with one's health
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