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

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

However, it also was severely criticized as a plagiary of the Finnish epic poem Kalevala.

From The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

More; the farewell of which may be our author's to his plagiary, Vale, More! et moriam tuam gnaviter defende.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Gilfillan, George

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