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malingeror

malingeror is the archaic form of malingerer.

Meaning of malingerer

Noun

malingerer (plural malingerers)

  1. A person who malingers.
    • 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.2009, Mark Fisher, chapter 5, in Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Zero Books, →ISBN, page 37

Forms of malingeror

pluralmalingerors

Origin of malingeror

From malinger + -or.

Questions about malingeror

What is malingeror the archaic form of?
Malingeror is the archaic form of malingerer.

Words near malingeror in the dictionary

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

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