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Word of the Day for Saturday, July 19, 2008malinger \muh-LING-guhr\, intransitive verb: To feign or exaggerate illness or inability in order to avoid duty or work. Because he twice slapped battle-stressed soldiers in Sicily who, he thought, were merely malingering, he was denied a major command in the Normandy landings. It is impossible to determine exactly what inspired Mary's various symptoms, but her own and other family members' letters suggest that her suffering may have been a combination of hypochondria, conscious histrionics and malingering, and unconscious rebellion against her father. My specialty is subjecting the data I obtain to successive mathematical corrective formulas to filter the truly psychotic from those who are malingering. Malinger derives from French malingre, "sickly," perhaps from Old French mal, "badly" + heingre, "lean, thin." | |||||||||
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