malingerer

noun

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as in shirker

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as in complainer

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  1. beggar
  2. dodger
  3. hypochondriac
  4. slacker
  5. grouch
  6. worrywart
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  • The beggars, widows, and families with sick relatives who once made a pilgrimage to the gates of the parliament building in the Green Zone to beg lawmakers for help are now barred from entry.
    Ned Parker, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2012
  • All the beggars at the intersection of Lee Road and the off-ramp of I-4 are completely out of hand.
    Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2024
Definition of beggar
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  • While the move aimed at keeping counterfeiters and tax dodgers on the back foot appears at odds with the growing popularity of cash-free transactions by consumers and businesses, central bank and finance ministry officials continue to flag the enduring importance of paper money.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Asia, 3 July 2024
  • Indictment details In the indictment, the department’s tax attorneys portrayed Rotta as a perennial tax dodger.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
Definition of dodger
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  • To position Cohn in bed next to Trump, a notorious hypochondriac, highlights their strained relationship as Trump rose and Cohn fell in New York high society.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
  • They are widely seen as overly anxious hypochondriacs.
    Evan Malmgren, Harper's Magazine, 21 Aug. 2024
Definition of hypochondriac
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  • The birth of Spencer’s The first generation of shoppers to get hooked on Spencer’s weren’t the mallrat slackers of Gen-X or even the forever youthful Baby Boomers.
    Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Across four studio albums, the 25-year-old indie-rocker has cultivated an image as the world’s highest-achieving slacker, a small-town guy whose passion for drinkin’ belies a sneaky perceptiveness and a wry, unexpectedly bleak sense of humor.
    Chris Stanton, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2024
Definition of slacker
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  • Warm feelings fueled by the wonder and kindness of the season, inspired by the transformative and timeless experiences of Ebenezer Scrooge who changed from a selfish, penny-pinching grouch, into a generous, happy and altruistic person.
    Eric C. Shuster, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The Grinch, a furious grouch living on the outskirts of Whoville, decides to ruin the holiday by posing as Santa Claus and stealing everyone’s presents, decorations, and feasts.
    EW.com, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of grouch
Noun
  • Until the 1960s, Norton points out, about half of American women of legal driving age never obtained driver’s licenses—a fact the pro-automotive forces exploited in their campaign to paint pedestrian safety advocates as busybodies and worrywarts who just didn’t understand the science of traffic.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Former New York Federal Reserve Bank President Bill Dudley’s editorial Wednesday was the catalyst for this worrywart crowd.
    Bob Pisani, CNBC, 25 July 2024
Definition of worrywart
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