Word of the Day
heterodox \HET-uh-ruh-doks\, adjective:
1. Contrary to or differing from some acknowledged standard, especially in church doctrine or dogma; unorthodox.
2. Holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines.
They fight with members of other faiths, who seem to challenge their claim to a monopoly of absolute truth; they also persecute their co-religionists for interpreting a tradition differently or for holding heterodox beliefs.
--Karen Armstrong, Islam: A Short History
Most of the Kurds were Sunni Muslims, but perhaps a quarter or a third adhered to heterodox varieties of Islam that preserved traces of earlier religions.
--Susan Meisalis, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History
Moreover, heterodox behaviour -- in the form of eccentric chess moves -- was even encouraged, if it led to good results.
--Jon Speelman, "Chess," Independent, October 24, 1998
Mr. Buckley is an American exotic of the far right, who wins some sympathy for his frankness and boldness since, in this sorry world, the heterodox are always laughed at whether right or left.
--Richard L. Strout, "All That Is Out of Joint and Needs Setting Right," New York Times, April 28, 1963
Heterodox comes from Greek heterodoxos, "of another opinion, "from hetero-, "other" + doxa, "opinion," from dokein, "to believe."
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Monday, April 26, 2004
Opinions
Opinions are like assholes - everyone's got one and most of 'em stink.
(By grrwoo, posted on livejournal)
(By grrwoo, posted on livejournal)
Thursday, April 15, 2004
Goodbye George
Bush's press conference - White House transcript
Watched the full magilla last night. Bush was almost certainly to wearing an earpiece and being fed information, which cast "you know, I just -- I'm sure something will pop into my head here" in a whole new light. The poor man was screaming for help. None came.
I also love the new storyline, heralded by former FBI director Louis J Freeh in Monday's Wall Street Journal, that provides new backup for the Iraq/terror 'connection' and also explains Bush's failure to act on pre-911 intelligence.
1. Bush wasn't to blame. It was Al Qaeda flying the planes. So they're reponsible. Obviously. Oh and the UK failed, too. Not that Bush did. Fail, that is. So there. (oh, there's more on this point here if you want it.)
2. Now for the biggie: America wasn't on a war footing then, y'see. America needs to be on a war footing to be able to fight - and prevent - terror. Doesn't matter who the war is with, they just need to be on a war footing. Bush used the phrase 'war footing' five times during this press conference, just to be sure that we got the point. Because, gawrsh darn it, he's simple failed to communimicate it properly before.
I also love this:
"We knew they were hiding things -- a country that hides something is a country that is afraid of getting caught." - George W. Bush
But that's just me thinking out loud. For proper analysis what like the pros do, see that filthy liberal rag, the Washington Post.
Plus, we also have the wonderful news that Bush and Sharon have cooked up a plan that solves the Palestinian problem by ignoring Palestinians. Me, I'm waiting for the speech that goes: "We're not building a road map, we're building a road. And roads need bulldozers!"
Bush's press conference - White House transcript
Watched the full magilla last night. Bush was almost certainly to wearing an earpiece and being fed information, which cast "you know, I just -- I'm sure something will pop into my head here" in a whole new light. The poor man was screaming for help. None came.
I also love the new storyline, heralded by former FBI director Louis J Freeh in Monday's Wall Street Journal, that provides new backup for the Iraq/terror 'connection' and also explains Bush's failure to act on pre-911 intelligence.
1. Bush wasn't to blame. It was Al Qaeda flying the planes. So they're reponsible. Obviously. Oh and the UK failed, too. Not that Bush did. Fail, that is. So there. (oh, there's more on this point here if you want it.)
2. Now for the biggie: America wasn't on a war footing then, y'see. America needs to be on a war footing to be able to fight - and prevent - terror. Doesn't matter who the war is with, they just need to be on a war footing. Bush used the phrase 'war footing' five times during this press conference, just to be sure that we got the point. Because, gawrsh darn it, he's simple failed to communimicate it properly before.
I also love this:
"We knew they were hiding things -- a country that hides something is a country that is afraid of getting caught." - George W. Bush
But that's just me thinking out loud. For proper analysis what like the pros do, see that filthy liberal rag, the Washington Post.
Plus, we also have the wonderful news that Bush and Sharon have cooked up a plan that solves the Palestinian problem by ignoring Palestinians. Me, I'm waiting for the speech that goes: "We're not building a road map, we're building a road. And roads need bulldozers!"
Word of the Day
privation \pry-VAY-shun\, noun:
1. An act or instance of depriving.
2. The state of being deprived of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need.
The late Georges Bernanos complained that the isolated labor of writing deprived novelists of essential human contacts. This is, indeed, a bitter and painful privation, even if it is in some instances a temperamental preference of novelists.
--Saul Bellow, "My Man Bummidge," New York Times, September 27, 1964
The Carsons were more often poor than of modest means, and this privation shaped Rachel's opportunities and her personality from the outset.
--Linda Lear, [2]Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
Poverty had by no means been eliminated, but the extreme privation that had earlier characterized large sections of the country had disappeared.
--Fred Warner Neal, "Yugoslavia at the Crossroads," The Atlantic, December 1962
Privation derives from Latin privatio, from privatus, past participle of privare, "to strip, to deprive of," originally, "to separate from, to put aside, to exempt," from privus, "single, private."
privation \pry-VAY-shun\, noun:
1. An act or instance of depriving.
2. The state of being deprived of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need.
The late Georges Bernanos complained that the isolated labor of writing deprived novelists of essential human contacts. This is, indeed, a bitter and painful privation, even if it is in some instances a temperamental preference of novelists.
--Saul Bellow, "My Man Bummidge," New York Times, September 27, 1964
The Carsons were more often poor than of modest means, and this privation shaped Rachel's opportunities and her personality from the outset.
--Linda Lear, [2]Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
Poverty had by no means been eliminated, but the extreme privation that had earlier characterized large sections of the country had disappeared.
--Fred Warner Neal, "Yugoslavia at the Crossroads," The Atlantic, December 1962
Privation derives from Latin privatio, from privatus, past participle of privare, "to strip, to deprive of," originally, "to separate from, to put aside, to exempt," from privus, "single, private."
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Word of the Day
myrmidon \MUR-muh-don; -duhn\, noun:
1. [Capitalized] A member of a warlike Thessalian people who followed Achilles on the expedition against Troy.
2. A loyal follower, especially one who executes orders without question, protest, or pity.
He risked assassination, torture or... retaliation, the defining signatures of Mr. Milosevic and his ultranationalist myrmidons.
--Bruce Fein, "Follow U.S. war crimes advice?" Washington Times, May 10, 2001
Those who created EMU [(European) Economic and Monetary Union] -- mainly politicians and their myrmidons in the offices and conference rooms of Brussels -- portray a beckoning landscape of wealth, liberty and economic power that will rival the United States and surpass Asia.
--James O. Jackson, "The One-Way Bridge," Time, May 11, 1998
Myrmidon derives from Greek Myrmidones, a warlike people of ancient Thessaly.
myrmidon \MUR-muh-don; -duhn\, noun:
1. [Capitalized] A member of a warlike Thessalian people who followed Achilles on the expedition against Troy.
2. A loyal follower, especially one who executes orders without question, protest, or pity.
He risked assassination, torture or... retaliation, the defining signatures of Mr. Milosevic and his ultranationalist myrmidons.
--Bruce Fein, "Follow U.S. war crimes advice?" Washington Times, May 10, 2001
Those who created EMU [(European) Economic and Monetary Union] -- mainly politicians and their myrmidons in the offices and conference rooms of Brussels -- portray a beckoning landscape of wealth, liberty and economic power that will rival the United States and surpass Asia.
--James O. Jackson, "The One-Way Bridge," Time, May 11, 1998
Myrmidon derives from Greek Myrmidones, a warlike people of ancient Thessaly.
Photshopping - or just plain trickery?
Take a look at the following picture, which I have taken from the US government website on Muslims in America ("We have muslims too, they love it here, don't hate us!") - http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/muslimlife/everyday4.htm
The country flag keyrings are in this order: Oman, Yemen, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritania, USA, Plaestine, Qatar, Saudi, Syria, Sudan, Turkey, Tunisia, Somalia, Armenia, Albania.
They would usually be ordered alphabetically, and given the strong ordering I would suggest that they were, before this picture was taken.
It looks as though USA has been swapped for the Oman place, giving it a more prominent effect in the picture. Albania and Armenia have been relegated to the end (Where USA and Yemen should be) and Somalia has been strangely placed at the end out of the way (it should be between Saudi and Syria). But let's forget about Somalia.
Photoshopping anyone?
Take a look at the following picture, which I have taken from the US government website on Muslims in America ("We have muslims too, they love it here, don't hate us!") - http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/muslimlife/everyday4.htm
The country flag keyrings are in this order: Oman, Yemen, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritania, USA, Plaestine, Qatar, Saudi, Syria, Sudan, Turkey, Tunisia, Somalia, Armenia, Albania.
They would usually be ordered alphabetically, and given the strong ordering I would suggest that they were, before this picture was taken.
It looks as though USA has been swapped for the Oman place, giving it a more prominent effect in the picture. Albania and Armenia have been relegated to the end (Where USA and Yemen should be) and Somalia has been strangely placed at the end out of the way (it should be between Saudi and Syria). But let's forget about Somalia.
Photoshopping anyone?
The spam story
(That's unsolicited email, not canned meat)
On April 12, 1994, a pair of attorneys in Arizona launched a homemade marketing software program that forever changed the Internet.
Hoping to drum up some business, Laurence Canter dashed off a Perl script that flooded online message boards with an advertisement pitching the legal services of Canter & Siegel, the law firm he ran with his then wife, Martha Siegel.
The response was immediate and harsh, offering one of the loudest signals up to that point that unchecked marketing would not be tolerated in the new medium. Thousands of recipients registered their displeasure, and a new label for the burgeoning business of unsolicited mass Internet advertising was coined.
"Send coconuts and cans of Spam to Cantor & Co.," one outraged Usenet reader wrote amid the uproar that followed the Canter & Siegel message. "(Be sure to drop the can of Spam on its seam first.)"
http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5189340.html
(That's unsolicited email, not canned meat)
On April 12, 1994, a pair of attorneys in Arizona launched a homemade marketing software program that forever changed the Internet.
Hoping to drum up some business, Laurence Canter dashed off a Perl script that flooded online message boards with an advertisement pitching the legal services of Canter & Siegel, the law firm he ran with his then wife, Martha Siegel.
The response was immediate and harsh, offering one of the loudest signals up to that point that unchecked marketing would not be tolerated in the new medium. Thousands of recipients registered their displeasure, and a new label for the burgeoning business of unsolicited mass Internet advertising was coined.
"Send coconuts and cans of Spam to Cantor & Co.," one outraged Usenet reader wrote amid the uproar that followed the Canter & Siegel message. "(Be sure to drop the can of Spam on its seam first.)"
http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5189340.html
Goodbye George
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2883.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2842.htm
A Strategy for Iraq - by John F. Kerry
Transcript of President Bush's press conference
If you're having trouble telling the difference between the two, one carries the the ever-reliable terror/Iraq/terror/Iraq/terror/Iraq mantra, and the other doesn't.
A spokesperson for the Bush administration also took full advantage of the passing of time to set in stone the WMD lie on BBC Radio 4 this morning. Because Saddam had WMDs in the past and the war is now in the past (kind of) she quite happily asserted on more than one occasion that the war was good and proper because 'Saddam had WMDs'
Bush Press Conference - Kevin Drum watched and blogged the press conference live.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2883.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2842.htm
A Strategy for Iraq - by John F. Kerry
Transcript of President Bush's press conference
If you're having trouble telling the difference between the two, one carries the the ever-reliable terror/Iraq/terror/Iraq/terror/Iraq mantra, and the other doesn't.
A spokesperson for the Bush administration also took full advantage of the passing of time to set in stone the WMD lie on BBC Radio 4 this morning. Because Saddam had WMDs in the past and the war is now in the past (kind of) she quite happily asserted on more than one occasion that the war was good and proper because 'Saddam had WMDs'
Bush Press Conference - Kevin Drum watched and blogged the press conference live.
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Word of the Day
carom \KAIR-uhm\, noun:
1. A rebound following a collision; a glancing off.
2. A shot in billiards in which the cue ball successively strikes two other balls on the table.
intransitive verb:
1. To strike and rebound; to glance.
2. To make a carom.
transitive verb:
To make (an object) bounce off something; to cause to carom.
The cart smashed into the steep hillside in explosive caroms and bounces, sending billows of dust and rock into the air.
--Ev Ehrlich, Grant Speaks
Three blocks away, in the Rue des Jardiniers, four Moroccan children were kicking a filthy soccer ball up and down the street. It caromed off the parked cars, rolled into the gutter, was kicked again, leaving dirty blotches where it had smacked against the vehicles' fenders.
--Philip Shelby, Gatekeeper
The anger caroms around in our psyches like jagged stones.
--Randall Robinson, Defending the Spirit
Carom derives from obsolete carambole, from Spanish carambola, "a stroke at billiards."
carom \KAIR-uhm\, noun:
1. A rebound following a collision; a glancing off.
2. A shot in billiards in which the cue ball successively strikes two other balls on the table.
intransitive verb:
1. To strike and rebound; to glance.
2. To make a carom.
transitive verb:
To make (an object) bounce off something; to cause to carom.
The cart smashed into the steep hillside in explosive caroms and bounces, sending billows of dust and rock into the air.
--Ev Ehrlich, Grant Speaks
Three blocks away, in the Rue des Jardiniers, four Moroccan children were kicking a filthy soccer ball up and down the street. It caromed off the parked cars, rolled into the gutter, was kicked again, leaving dirty blotches where it had smacked against the vehicles' fenders.
--Philip Shelby, Gatekeeper
The anger caroms around in our psyches like jagged stones.
--Randall Robinson, Defending the Spirit
Carom derives from obsolete carambole, from Spanish carambola, "a stroke at billiards."
Twunt's written a book (all by hisself)
John Gibson
TWUNT!
The leader of the Fox Spews intelligencia has written a book - 'Hating America : The New World Sport'. I say 'written' but it was probably hand-crafted by crayon and construction paper.
This from twunt's Fox Spews site:
I've written a book called "Hating America: The New World Sport" in which I lay out the things the world has been saying about us, behind our backs for the last few years, and how it got so much worse during the run-up to the war and the war itself.
My research shows in Europe and in the Arab world, especially our friends in the so-called Western Alliance, they simply don't trust us anymore. Our former friends are afraid of us, they envy our power, they're jealous and they will spend much more time trying to constrain the United States than anyone ever spent thinking about how to relieve the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein
Interestingly it's being offered on Amazon in conjunction with a book by another Fox Spews tosser - 'Deliver Us From Evil', for which Publishers Weekly has this glowing Editorial Review:
Conservative Fox Television news host and bestselling author Hannity sees behind the ills of the world one cause: evil. And so Hannity joins the "neocon" chorus, positing that totalitarian regimes, such as Hussein's in Iraq, Hitler's Germany and the former Soviet Union, serve as breeding grounds for evil, thus justifying President Bush's policy of pre-emptive action against countries that could threaten American interests. Despite "irrefutable evidence," Hannity writes, today's liberals inexplicably doubt that "absolute evil truly exists," and instead foolishly cling to the idea that the world's problems might arise from social, psychological and cultural differences or from economic inequality. Fans of Hannity "Christian conservatives in particular"will no doubt embrace this straightforward call to arms. Many readers, however, will find Hannity's "irrefutable" evidence to be anything but, and his selective use of history and circular logic raise far more questions than it settles. Two final chapters examine what Hannity considers to be the dangerous, partisan policies espoused by the current slate of Democratic presidential candidates. For our democracy to survive, Hannity argues, we must root out terrorists and defeat evil totalitarian regimes before they can harm usâ€"a theme that will no doubt play loudly this election season.
John Gibson
TWUNT!
The leader of the Fox Spews intelligencia has written a book - 'Hating America : The New World Sport'. I say 'written' but it was probably hand-crafted by crayon and construction paper.
This from twunt's Fox Spews site:
I've written a book called "Hating America: The New World Sport" in which I lay out the things the world has been saying about us, behind our backs for the last few years, and how it got so much worse during the run-up to the war and the war itself.
My research shows in Europe and in the Arab world, especially our friends in the so-called Western Alliance, they simply don't trust us anymore. Our former friends are afraid of us, they envy our power, they're jealous and they will spend much more time trying to constrain the United States than anyone ever spent thinking about how to relieve the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein
Interestingly it's being offered on Amazon in conjunction with a book by another Fox Spews tosser - 'Deliver Us From Evil', for which Publishers Weekly has this glowing Editorial Review:
Conservative Fox Television news host and bestselling author Hannity sees behind the ills of the world one cause: evil. And so Hannity joins the "neocon" chorus, positing that totalitarian regimes, such as Hussein's in Iraq, Hitler's Germany and the former Soviet Union, serve as breeding grounds for evil, thus justifying President Bush's policy of pre-emptive action against countries that could threaten American interests. Despite "irrefutable evidence," Hannity writes, today's liberals inexplicably doubt that "absolute evil truly exists," and instead foolishly cling to the idea that the world's problems might arise from social, psychological and cultural differences or from economic inequality. Fans of Hannity "Christian conservatives in particular"will no doubt embrace this straightforward call to arms. Many readers, however, will find Hannity's "irrefutable" evidence to be anything but, and his selective use of history and circular logic raise far more questions than it settles. Two final chapters examine what Hannity considers to be the dangerous, partisan policies espoused by the current slate of Democratic presidential candidates. For our democracy to survive, Hannity argues, we must root out terrorists and defeat evil totalitarian regimes before they can harm usâ€"a theme that will no doubt play loudly this election season.
Inventions By Lazy People
LazyPlates for students
These are plastic plates, coated with many thousands off strong, transparent, peel off layers. Simply eat of the plate as usual (the plastic is strong enough to withstand knife cuts) and when you're done, whip off a layer and bin it! Bingo, no washing up to do! After you've peeled off all the layers, stick on a refill pack, or bin the plate!
Margarine-stick.
Like a pritt-stick, but full of margarine.
So if you're too lazy to get a knife and faff around with the tub, you can still have margarine on your sandwich.
Also, it would be ideal for packed lunches.
Maybe Flora could jump on the dairylea bandwagon, and sell "Flora Lunchables" containing bread, fillings, and a "margarine-stick"
The HedgeHogWatch
A device so simple - it'll make you weep blood, a hedgehog strapped to your wrist - you can now tell the time. If its winter, it's asleep.
Two alarm settings, winter and not-winter. Never be unsure what season you are in again.
Jackets with mirrors, stop lights and indicators.
And people have to use them on crowded streets, to stop them fucking stopping without warning. Bastards.
Square sausages
Sausages that aren't round, requiring you to chase them around the grill/pan and leading to a disparity in the amount of sausage area cooked.
Square profile sausages would cure this in an instant
LazyPlates for students
These are plastic plates, coated with many thousands off strong, transparent, peel off layers. Simply eat of the plate as usual (the plastic is strong enough to withstand knife cuts) and when you're done, whip off a layer and bin it! Bingo, no washing up to do! After you've peeled off all the layers, stick on a refill pack, or bin the plate!
Margarine-stick.
Like a pritt-stick, but full of margarine.
So if you're too lazy to get a knife and faff around with the tub, you can still have margarine on your sandwich.
Also, it would be ideal for packed lunches.
Maybe Flora could jump on the dairylea bandwagon, and sell "Flora Lunchables" containing bread, fillings, and a "margarine-stick"
The HedgeHogWatch
A device so simple - it'll make you weep blood, a hedgehog strapped to your wrist - you can now tell the time. If its winter, it's asleep.
Two alarm settings, winter and not-winter. Never be unsure what season you are in again.
Jackets with mirrors, stop lights and indicators.
And people have to use them on crowded streets, to stop them fucking stopping without warning. Bastards.
Square sausages
Sausages that aren't round, requiring you to chase them around the grill/pan and leading to a disparity in the amount of sausage area cooked.
Square profile sausages would cure this in an instant
Sunday, April 11, 2004
Word of the Day
bailiwick \BAY-luh-wik\, noun:
1. A person's specific area of knowledge, authority, interest, skill, or work.
2. The office or district of a bailiff.
I'll give it a try, but this is not my bailiwick.
--Sue Grafton, 'L' Is for Lawless
He "professed ignorance, as of something outside my bailiwick."
--Marc Aronson, "Wharton and the House of Scribner: The Novelist as a Pain in the Neck," New York Times, January 2, 1994
Fund-raising was Cliff's bailiwick, anyway, and he seemed to have it in hand.
--Curt Sampson, The Masters
Bailiwick comes from Middle English baillifwik, from baillif, "bailiff" (ultimately from Latin bajulus, "porter, carrier") + wik, "town," from Old English wic, from Latin vicus, "village."
bailiwick \BAY-luh-wik\, noun:
1. A person's specific area of knowledge, authority, interest, skill, or work.
2. The office or district of a bailiff.
I'll give it a try, but this is not my bailiwick.
--Sue Grafton, 'L' Is for Lawless
He "professed ignorance, as of something outside my bailiwick."
--Marc Aronson, "Wharton and the House of Scribner: The Novelist as a Pain in the Neck," New York Times, January 2, 1994
Fund-raising was Cliff's bailiwick, anyway, and he seemed to have it in hand.
--Curt Sampson, The Masters
Bailiwick comes from Middle English baillifwik, from baillif, "bailiff" (ultimately from Latin bajulus, "porter, carrier") + wik, "town," from Old English wic, from Latin vicus, "village."
Thursday, April 08, 2004
Ice sculptures
The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, both farenheit and centigrade, and stays below freezing nearly half the year. The city is actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok, Russia, just 300 miles away. So what does one do here every winter? Hold an outdoor festival, of course! Rather than suffer the cold, the residents of Harbin celebrate it, with an annual festival of snow and ice sculptures and competitions. This is the amazing sculpture made of snow greeting visitors to the snow festival in 2003.
Amazing Pictures
The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, both farenheit and centigrade, and stays below freezing nearly half the year. The city is actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok, Russia, just 300 miles away. So what does one do here every winter? Hold an outdoor festival, of course! Rather than suffer the cold, the residents of Harbin celebrate it, with an annual festival of snow and ice sculptures and competitions. This is the amazing sculpture made of snow greeting visitors to the snow festival in 2003.
Amazing Pictures
Breasts
According to a poll on the BBC site about 73% of voters believe the Scum should keep page three girls.
According to a poll on the BBC site about 73% of voters believe the Scum should keep page three girls.
Quote
I just found this great quote on the site Aldermaston2004
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
- Martin Luther King JR
I just found this great quote on the site Aldermaston2004
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
- Martin Luther King JR
Thesaurus Word of the Day
| Entry: | shirk |
| Function: | verb |
| Definition: | avoid |
| Synonyms: | bypass, cheat, creep, dodge, dog, dog it, duck, elude, eschew, evade, featherbed, fence, flub, flub off, fluff off, get around, goldbrick, goof off, gumshoe, lurk, malinger, parry, pussyfoot, quit, shuffle off, shun, sidestep, skulk, slack, slink, slip, sluff off, snake, sneak, steal |
Word of the Day
malinger \muh-LING-guhr\, intransitive verb:
To feign or exaggerate illness or inability in order to avoid duty or work.
Because he twice slapped battle-stressed soldiers in Sicily who, he thought, were merely malingering, he was denied a major command in the Normandy landings.
--Bernard Knox, "Scorched Earth," New York Times, November 14, 1999
It is impossible to determine exactly what inspired Mary's various symptoms, but her own and other family members' letters suggest that her suffering may have been a combination of hypochondria, conscious histrionics and malingering, and unconscious rebellion against her father.
--Caroline Fraser, God's Perfect Child
My specialty is subjecting the data I obtain to successive mathematical corrective formulas to filter the truly psychotic from those who are malingering.
--Barbara Kirwin, Ph.D, The Mad, the Bad, and the Innocent
Malinger derives from French malingre, "sickly," perhaps from Old French mal, "badly" + heingre, "lean, thin."
malinger \muh-LING-guhr\, intransitive verb:
To feign or exaggerate illness or inability in order to avoid duty or work.
Because he twice slapped battle-stressed soldiers in Sicily who, he thought, were merely malingering, he was denied a major command in the Normandy landings.
--Bernard Knox, "Scorched Earth," New York Times, November 14, 1999
It is impossible to determine exactly what inspired Mary's various symptoms, but her own and other family members' letters suggest that her suffering may have been a combination of hypochondria, conscious histrionics and malingering, and unconscious rebellion against her father.
--Caroline Fraser, God's Perfect Child
My specialty is subjecting the data I obtain to successive mathematical corrective formulas to filter the truly psychotic from those who are malingering.
--Barbara Kirwin, Ph.D, The Mad, the Bad, and the Innocent
Malinger derives from French malingre, "sickly," perhaps from Old French mal, "badly" + heingre, "lean, thin."
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