malingering
noun
- faking illness for financial or similar personal gain
Wiktionary
noun
- The intentional feigning of an illness or injury for personal gain or to avoid a responsibility, such as work, military service, or legal consequences.
“Owners also restricted access to medical care by routinely accusing sick blacks of malingering. Slave narratives and planters’ records reveal that an owner faced with a sick slave was likely to believe the illness was feigned.”
verb
- present participle and gerund of malinger