Malingerer (Noun)
Meaning
Someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The supervisor suspected that John was a malingerer, as he always seemed to be sick on Mondays.
- The company's HR department was tasked with identifying and addressing malingerers who were abusing the company's sick leave policy.
- After a thorough investigation, it was determined that the employee was a malingerer and was terminated for falsifying medical records.
- The doctor was skeptical of the patient's claims of chronic pain and suspected that he might be a malingerer trying to scam the system.
- The team's morale suffered when they realized that one of their own was a malingerer, leaving the rest of them to pick up the slack.