malingerer

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Noun
  • The faculty experience has been that administrations often side with the complainers.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Recognize Quieter Customers Celebrate the non-complainers.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In Havana, beggars are ubiquitous.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Brando, the owner of an atoll in Tahiti, where his family dwelled, had become the beggar of Hollywood, who had to feed on crumbs.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • No one likes a draft-day whiner.
    Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 17 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • These changes will also usher in a shift in the way U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) handles customs and tariff enforcement, with both the DOJ and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) laser focused on duty dodgers.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 30 July 2025
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    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 July 2025
Noun
  • When Kimberly and her family leave the New Jersey suburbs under dubious circumstances, Kimberly reevaluates her life while dealing with her hypochondriac mother, alcoholic father, scam-artist aunt, her own mortality and her first love.
    Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Mae was a hoarder and a severe hypochondriac, who, despite Christian Science’s stricture against traditional medicine, took barbiturates daily for anxiety.
    Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Since signing to Matador, the band has sharpened its sound into a quirky, exhilarated alt-pop, too uncanny to be dance-punk and too lively to be slacker rock.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The cult hit comedy franchise Super Troopers revolves around the shenanigans of a group of Vermont state troopers who are slacker pranksters first and foremost.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • It’s painted Ulrich as a public grouch ever since; the out-of-touch rich rock star who wants to fight for every dime.
    Ramon Ramirez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • Lisa and Abe will always be grouches, but there is value in being the antithesis. 26.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Trump and White House economic officials have insisted that the U.S. economy will benefit on the whole from higher tax revenues and dismissed critics of their policies as hysterical worrywarts.
    Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 25 June 2025
  • Although Allen is best known for promulgating a certain set of character types in his classic films, his own bookish worrywart or Diane Keaton’s moodily anxious beauty, he also must be credited for seeing the comic possibilities of the altogether less agitated and more grounded Roberts.
    Peter Tonguette, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
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“Malingerer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malingerer. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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