Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun malingering

1 sense of malingering

Sense 1
malingering, skulking -- (evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated; "they developed a test to detect malingering")
       => evasion, escape, dodging -- (nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb malinger

1 sense of malinger

Sense 1
malinger, skulk -- (avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill)
       => fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick -- (avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties")