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

What he had of humorous or passionate, he seems to have had not from nature, but from other poets; if not always as a plagiary, at least as an imitator.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

It is sometimes admitted that Milton was a plagiary, but it is urged in extenuation that his plagiarisms were always reproduced in finer forms.

From Milton by Pattison, Mark

Yet the problem does not resolve itself into the simple question whether Pandolfini or Alberti was the plagiary.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

There is another sort of jay, The number of its legs the same, Which makes of borrow'd plumes display, And plagiary is its name.

From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur