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
This is a very different thing from the blind plagiary of those who cannot see their own way, and are themselves surprised to find that they have stolen.
From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Arthur Ransome
Some Commentators have gone too far in their appreciation and the Udine monk has been treated either as a plagiary or a liar!
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule
They are fond of quoting a saying of Gauguin's that "one must be either a revolutionist or a plagiary"; but can any one tell these revolutionists apart?
From Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects by Kenyon Cox
There is another sort of jay, The number of its legs the same, Which makes of borrow'd plumes display, And plagiary is its name.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Elizur Wright
And thus he still, new plagiaries seeking, Reversed ventriloquism's trick, For, 'stead of Dick thro' others speaking, 'Twas others we heard speak thro' Dick.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
These gentlemen are undoubtedly the first plagiaries that pretend to make a reputation, by stealing from a man's works in his own life-time, and out of a public print.'
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Theophilus Cibber
At the same time he denounced the authors, so as to disincline the reader to look into their pages for the D'Israelian plagiaries.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake
