Definitions for malingers

malingers ma·lin·ger

Spelling: [muh-ling-ger]
IPA: /məˈlɪŋ gər/

Malingers is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 937 anagrams from letters in malingers (aegilmnrs).

Definitions for malingers

verb (used without object)

  1. to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.

Origin of malingers

1810-20; French malingre sickly, ailing, equivalent to mal- mal- + Old French heingre haggard (perhaps

Examples for malingers

It was quick work; but Bowles had a college education—he had been only six hours a cowboy when he learned to malinger on the job.

One, of course, can readily see with what facility an individual of the type under discussion could malinger mental symptoms.

"Sheep," who has been disposed to malinger, is the worst of the lot.

No man ever essayed to malinger or to shirk a duty to which he had been allotted by the doctor.

Word Value for malingers
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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