VERB | social | malinger, skulk | avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill |
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Meaning | avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Synonym | skulk | |
Broader | fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick | avoid (one's assigned duties) |
Spanish | escaquearse | |
Nouns | malingerer | someone shirking / shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity |
malingering | evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated |
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