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  • But your “English Malingerer Dawkins” scans rather nicely and would make a good Homeric epithet.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Here’s Something Depressing: 2007

  • Grandfather had been up to his old tricks this morning, hovering just on the edge of his vision and glowering, every so often mouthing the word, "Malingerer."

    Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • Malingerer’ is familiar enough to military men, but I do not find it in our dictionaries; being the soldier who, out of _evil will_ (malin gré) to his work, shams and shirks and is not found in the ranks {134}.

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

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