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

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

Thus Mr. Pope was obliged to represent this gentleman as a plagiary, or to pass for one himself.

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

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 Yule, Henry

He is allowed to have been a scholar, and to have understood and practised the dramatic rules; but Dryden proves him to have likewise been an unbounded plagiary.

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