malingering

Or, there is what might be called situational malingering.

Hypochondriasis and chronic malingering are other forms of such disease.

All these disorders are thought to be unconscious, not feigned or intentional malingering.

It has been speculated that this friend's experience with amnesia inspired Bruce's malingering.

There was a sullenness among them, a blank, passive defiance sometimes and a constant malingering at their work.

Chesen has subspecialized as an expert in the malingering of electrical brain injuries.

The term functional disorder is now used where hysterical and malingering were historically used.

It was three weeks before any of them dared to disobey me, and then there was no mass rebellion, only individual malingering.

However, because of his reported malingering, he was also charged with obstruction of justice, which added two points to the sentencing recommendations.

Will Llawcae says your wound is healed now, and there's no reason for your malingering."

"I call it constructive malingering."

This isn't the usual malingering."

It was palpable malingering; but he was there, he decided, not to change conditions, but to observe.

Around ten that night he located a whiskey-sodden derelict who was pointed out as a former processing plant worker discharged for constant malingering.

Her father had gotten so poisonously aggressive in his accusations of malingering of late that even she had started to protest weakly.

'She won't condone any more malingering.'

His signature was the plunger mute, and he used it swaggeringly, making his malingering, behind-the-beat notes plump and juicy.

The Duke would brook no malingering or corner-cutting, so everything was as start as Bespoke could make it, every atom could be justified.

For now, Mr. Manton says that he is engaged in "constructive malingering" and that he is keeping close watch on both campaigns.

Do you care to imagine what it would be like, if you had to live and to work, when you're tied to all the disasters and all the malingering of the globe?

Austin could not be allowed to get away with his malingering, especially not in front of the other colonists, who were gathering in a circle around Khan and Austin, waiting to see what happened next.

On Hitier's orders any incipient defeatism, desertion, failure to carry out orders or malingering were to be nipped in the bud by the imposition of death sentences as a deterrent, against which there was no appeal.

Somatoform disorders are not the result of conscious malingering (fabricating or exaggerating symptoms for secondary motives) or factitious disorders (deliberately producing, feigning, or exaggerating symptoms) - sufferers perceive their plight as real.

Her inability to find work as a lawyer since leaving state employment in 1994 is not due to the shock of what happened or the burden of the trial, as Ms. Davis contends, but to her own malingering and use of painkillers and alcohol, the state maintains.