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Noun: malingerer  mu'ling-gu-ru(r)
  1. Someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity
    "The sergeant suspected the soldier was a malingerer";
    - skulker, shammer

Derived forms: malingerers

Type of: shirker, slacker [US, informal]

Encyclopedia: Malingerer