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

More; the farewell of which may be our author's to his plagiary, Vale, More! et moriam tuam gnaviter defende.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Gilfillan, George

On a famous occasion Charles Reade drew a line between plagiary and justifiable borrowing.

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

I resolved to attack his fame, and found some passages in cursory reading, which gave me hopes of stigmatizing him as a plagiary.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel

One day I found in an English magazine an elaborate article which in effect charged Tennyson with wholesale plagiary from Theocritus.

From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary