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malingerings

malingerings is the plural of malingering.

Meaning of malingering

Noun

malingering (countable and uncountable, plural malingerings)

  1. The intentional feigning of an illness or injury for personal gain or to avoid a responsibility, such as work, military service, or legal consequences.
    • Owners also restricted access to medical care by routinely accusing sick blacks of malingering. Slave narratives and planters’ records reveal that an owner faced with a sick slave was likely to believe the illness was feigned.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 45

Questions about malingerings

What is malingerings the plural of?
Malingerings is the plural of malingering.

Words near malingerings in the dictionary

  1. malinger
  2. malingered
  3. malingerer
  4. malingerers
  5. malingering
  6. malingerings
  7. malingeror
  8. malingerors
  9. malingers
  10. malingery
  11. Malingre

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