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

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

Why, the ditty's all borrowed; 'tis Horace's: hang him, plagiary!

From The Poetaster by Jonson, Ben

Yet the very few novels I have read, of later publications, incapacitates me again for detecting plagiary, or for making such comparisons as proper criticism may demand.

From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Smiles, Samuel

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