Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who plagiarizes; one who is guilty of plagiarism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who plagiarizes, or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
plagiarizes ; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his or her own; a literarythief ; aplagiary .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
Etymologies
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Examples
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NB: As an addendum to my last comment (still the last on the page, unless someone comments while I write this), because I've learned in the last few hours that calling Biden a plagiarist is truly unfair, I add the following, which I'm stealing directly from a comment thread at Making Light and I don't know how to do a proper hyperlink:
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Turns out my plagiarist is taking a class with him too, and Tom starts raving about this Joyce paper the kid wrote.
Horseman 2006
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Turns out my plagiarist is taking a class with him too, and Tom starts raving about this Joyce paper the kid wrote.
Horseman 2006
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And when someone like Stephen Ambrose turns out to be a serial plagiarist, which is what he was from the beginning of his career, as I document in the book, then that pulls down the whole edifice the rest of us are trying to construct whereby people respect us because we follow the rules that we impose upon ourselves.
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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 Various
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I love the idea of churnalism.com and PlagiPedia and what it might mean for journalism - Being shamed and exposed as a plagiarist should be a stain on a reputation but I'm not sure it will be.
The Guardian World News Jimmy Wales 2011
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Bob Dylan as a "fake" and a "plagiarist" - insisting the folk legend's entire act is a
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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Bob Dylan as a "fake" and a "plagiarist" - insisting the folk legend's entire act is a
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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Bob Dylan as a "fake" and a "plagiarist" - insisting the folk legend's entire act is a
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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Bob Dylan as a "fake" and a "plagiarist" - insisting the folk legend's entire act is a
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word plagiarist
probably one of the best one liners I've ever heard.
March 3, 2007