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

An insertion by a manifest plagiary into the work of a detected liar is not, usually, good evidence.

From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Lang, Andrew

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

Ravenscroft thus proceeds against Mr. Dryden: 'That I may maintain the character of impartial, to which I pretend, I must pull off his disguise, and discover the politic plagiary that lurks under it.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Cibber, Theophilus

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