Literary pirate

Usage examples of plagiarist.

I offer thee, my friend, for as a rule Zabastes is my only auditor,--but I would swear thou art no plagiarist, and wouldst not dishonor thine own intelligence so far as to filch pearls of fancy from another minstrel!

Certainly if Banville were to lay claim to having invented rhymes that are puns, we could only say that he was a plagiarist after reading Charles Poncy.

In that case, even if the plagiarist isn sued or punished in any way, you can be sure that no editor who knows of the plagiarism will buy anything from that writer again.

The plagiarist is one who borrows from a homogeneous work: for such a man borrows not ideas only, but their treatment.

But when the plagiarist does not take out a block in situ, but an abstract of the whole, decision is more troublesome.

Just like my plagiarist writing my ideas before I had them, he wrote music for the worst nickel-in-the-slot player piano fifty years before the player was invented.

In fact, nature is a confirmed plagiarist of art, as somebody has observed.

More than 200 cheat-sites have sprung up, with thousands of papers available on-line and tens of thousands of satisfied plagiarists the world over.

While the charlatans and the plagiarists and the corrupters and the defilers and the politicians have their arseholes licked.

He had marshalled a few questions in his mind which he felt sure would throw the old chap into a tizz, and expose him for a plagiarist and a posturing fraud.

John Thomas Steadman -- a craftsman, idealist, sculptor and, like so many others before him, humble plagiarist -- and his new wife, Gloria, the daughter of a Giggleswick mayor and Plombier Provocateur, Gordon Twing, and his wife, Doreen.

Villiers severely chastised the protectionist champion, showing how unscrupulously he played the part of a plagiarist even in the sophisms he employed.

Take Scheiner and Grassi: he called one of them a drunk and the other one a plagiarist.

Egil was the greatest of the Icelandic skalds, and there was another man around the same time called Eyvind the Plagiarist.

Here are burglars, bandits, mosstroopers, kidnapers, housebreakers, murderers, character assassins, plagiarists!