plagiarist
剽窃者,抄袭者,剽窃犯,拾人牙慧者
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- : an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne.
- : a piece of writing or other work reflecting such unauthorized use or imitation: “These two manuscripts are clearly plagiarisms,” the editor said, tossing them angrily on the floor.
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Examples
Hari was subsequently exposed as a plagiarist and liar, and his prize was vacated.
By those standards, Franz Kafka is an unscrupulous plagiarist as is Aaron Copland and every jazz great.
Your note about the resemblance of her verses to mine gave me great joy, though it only proved me a plagiarist.
He had at first some difficulty in deciding whether Soliva showed himself in that opera a plagiarist of Mozart or a genius.
One learns from it, while laughing the honestest of laughter, how inveterate a plagiarist from herself is Dame Fashion.
Borrow the plot of Sir J. M. Barrie's last play, and you do him no harm; you only write yourself down a plagiarist.
It has the shape of a contemptible swindler in literature, a plagiarist without bounds, named More.