noun · academic
plagiarist
/ˈpleɪ.dʒər.ɪst/PLAI·gia·rist
a person who copies someone else's work and presents it as their own
Examples
“The university expelled a student after proving he was a plagiarist.”
“Accusing someone of being a plagiarist is a serious charge in academia.”
“He was labelled a plagiarist when large sections of his article matched another author's work.”
Band 8 sentence
“The committee concluded that substantial sections of the thesis were copied, proving the author to be a plagiarist.”
Collocations
- to be accused of plagiarism
- a convicted plagiarist
Word family
Common mistakes
He is a plagiarism.→He is guilty of plagiarism / He is a plagiarist.
She plagiarized someone.→She plagiarized from someone.
Say it for a higher band
5copy→6copying someone else's work→7+plagiarist
Synonyms
copy
Easily confused
plagiarism
“The paper was rejected because of clear plagiarism.”
copycat
“The blog post was a copycat of an earlier article.”
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