Wondering how to use Malingering in a sentence? Below are 7 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as skulking or evasion.
Malingering meaning
The intentional feigning of an illness or injury for personal gain or to avoid a responsibility, such as work, military service, or legal consequences.
Using Malingering
- The main meaning on this page is: The intentional feigning of an illness or injury for personal gain or to avoid a responsibility, such as work, military service, or legal consequences.
- Useful related words include: skulking, evasion, escape, dodging.
- In the example corpus, malingering often appears in combinations such as: of malingering.
Context around Malingering
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Malingering
- In this selection, "malingering" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, although, faked, mentions, exaggerating and itself stand out and add context to how "malingering" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include are faked malingering and deceitful although malingering itself has. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "malingering" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with malingering
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Nonverbal or "performance" tests were developed for those who could not speak English or were suspected of malingering. (18 words)
By definition, the malingerer is knowingly deceitful (although malingering itself has also been called a mental illness or disorder). (19 words)
For example, in lay language, the term often encompasses illnesses with no physical basis at all, and even illnesses that are faked ( malingering ). (23 words)
He suffered a breakdown due to shell shock (which we now call post-traumatic stress disorder but which was then often thought, by those without first-hand experience of it, to be a species of malingering) and was eventually sent home. (41 words)
The judge, Leonard Levy SC, noted that Mr Webb’s credibility was “attacked”, with the insurer’s medical experts accusing him of “malingering, exaggerating or embellishing his problems”. (28 words)
Szasz mentions malingering in many of his works, but it is not what he has in mind to explain many other manifestations of so-called ″mental illness. (27 words)
Example sentences (7)
The judge, Leonard Levy SC, noted that Mr Webb’s credibility was “attacked”, with the insurer’s medical experts accusing him of “malingering, exaggerating or embellishing his problems”.
By definition, the malingerer is knowingly deceitful (although malingering itself has also been called a mental illness or disorder).
For example, in lay language, the term often encompasses illnesses with no physical basis at all, and even illnesses that are faked ( malingering ).
He suffered a breakdown due to shell shock (which we now call post-traumatic stress disorder but which was then often thought, by those without first-hand experience of it, to be a species of malingering) and was eventually sent home.
Malingering should be considered if there is possible financial or forensic gain, as well as factitious disorder if help-seeking behavior is prominent.
Nonverbal or "performance" tests were developed for those who could not speak English or were suspected of malingering.
Szasz mentions malingering in many of his works, but it is not what he has in mind to explain many other manifestations of so-called ″mental illness.
Common combinations with malingering
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of malingering 3×