plagiary

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The case follows that of the family of Marvin Gaye successfully suing Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke for plagiary on their hit Blurred Lines.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2015

It may be that many a successful author has been a plagiarist, but no author ever succeeded because of his plagiary.

From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Matthews, Brander

For result we found that beyond a doubt the magazinist had "skinned" his article out of Stedman's chapter—in other words, that he had in effect plagiarized his charge of plagiary and the proofs of it.

From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary

What he had of humorous or passionate, he seems to have had not from nature, but from other poets; if not always as a plagiary, at least as an imitator.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

He was not only a professed imitator of HORACE, but a learned plagiary of all the others.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor