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

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

Ariosto is a plagiary, the most so of all poets.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various

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