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Plagiarized

Plagiarize \Pla"gia*rize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plagiarized; p. pr. & vb. n. Plagiarizing.] To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

Wiktionary
plagiarized
  1. produced using plagiarism v

  2. (en-past of: plagiarize)

WordNet
plagiarized

adj. copied and passed off as your own; "used plagiarized data in his thesis"; "a work dotted with plagiarized phrases" [syn: plagiaristic, plagiarised]

Usage examples of "plagiarized".

When I read the article, I got a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach, because Hersey had once plagiarized from my mother.

He has no legal proof that Colodny stole or plagiarized his work since he obviously never copyrighted it.

Neal Bowers, a poet whose work has been repeatedly plagiarized by an out-of-work schoolteacher named David Jones, has written, "The intangible nature of language begins to haunt me, and I wonder how it's possible for anyone to own words.

If a writer, for any reason, commits plagiarism, copying some already published material, and if he gets away with it to the extent of getting the plagiarized material republished, he is bound to be caught sooner or later.

Just as honest, established writers must live, constantly, with the fear of being accused of plagiarism, or of themselves being plagiarized, so must honest, established editors live, constantly, with the fear of being victimized into publishing a doubtful story.

While some would simply have plagiarized, he created a fictional world that still endures today.

Assuming nobody would remember the story, he had plagiarized it, copied it almost word for word, except for one chapter he took whole from Fernandez y Gonzalez, in fact the best part of the story.

That was why he felt guilty even though he knew he hadn't plagiarized Farmer John Shooter's story.