Crossword-Solution: PLAGIARIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plagiarist | n. | One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “PLAGIARIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Copier, of sorts | 1 answer |
| someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own | 1 answer |
| Literary pirate | 3 answers |
| forger | 15 answers |
| Faker | 45 answers |
| Lawbreaker | 46 answers |
| Imitator | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PLAGIARIST (5)
Here are two where the mistake has resulted from sound assisted by remote fact: PLAGIARIST, a writer of plays.
Some morning this town will flock aghast to view a gory corpse; on its brow will be seen the awful sign, and men will tremble and whisper, “He has been here--it is the Mysterious Avenger's mark!” You will come here, but I shall have vanished; you will see me no more.' This ass had been reading the 'Jibbenainosay,' no doubt, and had had his poor romantic head turned by it; but as I had not yet seen the book then, I took his inventions for truth, and did not suspect that he was a plagiarist.
Your note about the resemblance of her verses to mine gave me great joy, though it only proved me a plagiarist.
But when your sister came she won the heart Of Ida: they were still together, grew (For so they said themselves) inosculated; Consonant chords that shiver to one note; One mind in all things: yet my mother still Affirms your Psyche thieved her theories, And angled with them for her pupil's love: She calls her plagiarist; I know not what: But I must go: I dare not tarry,' and light, As flies the shadow of a bird, she fled.
LIFE THE PLAGIARIST I once asked a lady, who knew Thackeray intimately, whether he had had any model for Becky Sharp.
Quotes with PLAGIARIST (3)
Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicinethe impossibility of being human Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his townthe impossibility of being human Burroughs killing his wife with a gun Mailer stabbing histhe impossibility of being human Maupassant going mad in a rowboat Dostoevsky lined up against a wall to be shot Crane off the ba…
God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them." God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from which to filch - man created in the image of what? the animals? - the creation of man was an act of reflexive plagiarizing; God looted the mirror. When we plagiarize, we are likewise creating in the image and participating in the completion of Creation.
By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across — each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip — is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1977–2006).