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

Franck, as we saw, called Walton ‘a plagiary.’

From Introduction to the Compleat Angler by Lang, Andrew

Should we say Lord Plunket had read these passages, and is thereby convicted of eloquent plagiary?

From Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 by Various

But here, while writing about plagiarism, I have been myself a plagiary; and it shall not remain without acknowledgment, having suffered somewhat in that sort myself.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

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