plagiarist

[ UK /plˈe‍ɪd‍ʒəɹˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
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How To Use plagiarist In A Sentence

  • Colleagues call Oates an unlikely plagiarist.
  • Especially if one can simply push forward and pay perhaps later: this is why the big guns, the one's who will be called "appropriators" instead of 'plagiarists', have seemingly abandoned copyright law altogether. Cat Weaver: The Panda Appropriations: When Your Property Is My Medium
  • He was a great borrower, but he didn't borrow like a plagiarist, he borrowed to change things according to his need.
  • Such was his regard for his patron's memory, that when Sallust described him as having a brazen face, and a shameless mind, he lashed the historian in a most bitter satire [882], as "a bull's-pizzle, a gormandizer, a braggart, and a tippler, a man whose life and writings were equally monstrous;" besides charging him with being "a most unskilful plagiarist, who borrowed the language of Cato and other old writers. De vita Caesarum
  • Unlike the countless self-pitying plagiarists who have followed in his wake, his was not simply another all-American whine.
  • Here, before the chapel of St. Louis, Raphael lingered, learning the frescoed Sibyls of its vault so by heart that he almost reproduced them afterward in the Pace at Rome -- that dear Raphael who did not fear being called a plagiarist, his soul was so full of beauty, and he so transfigured whatever he touched with that suave pencil of his that seemed to have been clipped in light for a color. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
  • Eliade's typology separated shamans from priests - the latter indulged in ‘plagiaristic aping’ of the original - and, as has often been argued since, claimed that shamanism had no place in Africa.
  • The DI’s position weakened further when they tried over and over again to claim that they weren’t calling Jones a plagiarist—a clumsy attempt at a paralepsis, indeed. DI's Plagiarism Allegations Against Jones Get Even Lamer - The Panda's Thumb
  • Computers, the Web, and this news database make it much easier to expose plagiarists and fabulists whose crimes would have gone undetected in 1966.
  • He constantly goes on about how he is the only credible lyricist in the Western world and implies that everyone else is some kind of pseud/plagiarist, And about being working class - he doesn't seem to do a fat lot of work to me. The Fall
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