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
Milton, an unconscious plagiary, a Latin verse of, cited, an English poet, his 'Hymn of the Nativity.'
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
No successful person, perhaps, was ever, in the strict sense, a plagiarist, though charges of plagiary are always brought against everybody, from Virgil to Milton, from Scott to Molière, who attains success.
From How to Fail in Literature; a lecture by Andrew Lang
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 Theophilus Cibber
It may be that many a successful author has been a plagiarist, but no author ever succeeded because of his plagiary.
From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Brander Matthews
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
