malingering in English

verb
1
exaggerate or feign illness in order to escape duty or work.
Earlier this year a poll found that 40% of small businesses thought employees were malingering when they took sick leave.
synonyms:pretend to be illfeign (an) illnessfake (an) illnessshirkgoof off
verb

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1. Again, Consultative evaluation doctors are looking for signs of exaggeration and malingering

2. It considers the proposition (Rogers, 1990a) that the pathogenic and criminological models of malingering can be rejected in favour of the Adaptional model