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malingerer

/muh-ling-ger-er/US // məˈlɪŋ gər ər //

流言蜚语,流言蜚语者,流言者,流浪汉

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who pretends to be sick, especially in order to avoid work or shirk responsibilities: Don’t reinforce the misguided perception that injured workers are just malingerers looking for a "paid vacation."

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Examples

  • It did not take me many days to realise that I was up against the most practised malingerer in the British (or any other) army.

  • When the last malingerer arrived with yawns still unfinished, Prissy seized upon a temporary hush and began to laugh.

  • The fellow's a palpable malingerer, and his being here makes it ever so much worse.

  • So in the same way hospital doctors will soon find out the malingerer.

  • One night there was a heavy snowfall, and in the morning Pike, the malingerer, did not appear.