literary theft
Example Sentences
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His first presidential campaign ended largely because he appropriated language from a British politician, Neil Kinnock, a literary theft that today seems almost benign.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2021
In the meantime, I asked a few academics for their thoughts on whether Dylan had committed punishable literary theft.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2017
First, Paul Manafort and Sean Spicer vociferously denied that any literary theft had occurred.
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2017
Mr. McDade, the author of a previous book about literary theft, is the curator of rare books at the University of Illinois College of Law.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2013
Plā′giarism, the act or practice of plagiarising; Plā′giarist, one who plagiarises; Plā′giary, one who steals the thoughts or writings of others and gives them out as his own: the crime of plagiarism.—adj. practising literary theft.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
