Plagiarizer (Noun)
Meaning
Someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The plagiarizer was caught by his professor after submitting a paper with passages copied verbatim from a published article.
- She was accused of being a plagiarizer after her bestselling novel was found to contain passages identical to those in a lesser-known book.
- The plagiarizer tried to pass off someone else's research as his own, but his colleagues saw through the deception.
- After being caught as a plagiarizer, the journalist was fired from his job and his reputation was ruined.
- The plagiarizer's defense was that he had "forgotten" to give proper credit to the original author of the ideas he had used in his speech.