plagiarist

/'pleidʤjərist/

Thân thiện

A student is caught as a plagiarist for copying a classmate's essay.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A person who plagiarizes: A plagiarist is someone who uses another person's words, ideas, or creative work and presents them as their own, without giving proper credit or acknowledgment to the original source.

Usage

• The word "plagiarist" is a formal term used to describe a person who commits the act of plagiarism. It is most commonly used in academic, journalistic, and artistic contexts to denote serious intellectual dishonesty.
• It functions as a countable noun (e.g., , ).

Examples

• Noun:
  • The university expelled the student after confirming he was a plagiarist.
  • The author was exposed as a plagiarist when readers found entire paragraphs copied from an obscure novel.
  • In the scientific community, being labeled a plagiarist can ruin a researcher's career.

Advanced Usage

• "Unrepentant plagiarist": Used to emphasize that the person shows no remorse for their actions.
  • The journalist was an unrepentant plagiarist, claiming all ideas were ultimately derivative.
• "Serial plagiarist": Describes someone who has committed plagiarism repeatedly.
  • The politician was revealed to be a serial plagiarist, with stolen passages in multiple speeches.

Variants and Related Words

• Plagiarism (n): The act or practice of plagiarizing; the intellectual theft itself.
  • The professor detected plagiarism in three of the submitted essays.
• Plagiarize (v): To commit plagiarism; to use someone else's work as one's own.
  • It is unethical to plagiarize from online sources.
• Plagiaristic (adj): Characteristic of or relating to plagiarism.
  • The work was rejected due to its plagiaristic content.

Synonyms

• Literary thief: (Formal) Emphasizes the theft of written work.
• Copycat: (Informal) Often used for less serious, imitative behavior, but can imply plagiarism.
• Pirate: Can be used in contexts of stealing intellectual property, including texts or ideas.

Related Phrases

• "To be accused of being a plagiarist": A common construction describing the allegation.
  • The musician was accused of being a plagiarist after the song's similarity to an older tune was noted.
• "To expose someone as a plagiarist": To reveal someone's plagiarism publicly.
  • The investigation aimed to expose the CEO as a plagiarist for his allegedly original manifesto.

Học thuật

Noun

1. someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own

Từ đồng nghĩa

• plagiarizer
• plagiariser
• literary pirate
• pirate