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Shammer (Noun)

Someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity.

Nouns denoting people.

He was accused of being a shammer after evidence emerged that he was able to attend his son's sports games while claiming to be too ill to work.
The new policy aims to catch shamming employees and fraudulent claims by conducting random medical checks on staff.
The company has a zero-tolerance policy towards shamming, and any employee caught will be subject to disciplinary action.
After reviewing the security footage, management discovered that John had been shamming, using his supposed back injury as an excuse to take extended breaks.
The union argued that the new surveillance measures would unfairly target honest workers and only serve to stigmatize genuine illnesses, rather than identifying intentional shamming.

A person who makes deceitful pretenses.

Nouns denoting people.

The con artist was revealed to be a shammer, who had been swindling investors for years.
The police were on the lookout for the shammer who had been posing as a charity collector in the neighborhood.
She turned out to be a shammer, claiming to have a medical degree from a reputable university when in fact she had no such credentials.
The shammer was able to convincing many people of his fake investment scheme, before he was finally caught.
The online scammer was exposed as a shammer, who had been using fake profiles to lure victims into transferring money to him.