plagiarist
- n someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
- I had at least a dozen people write to me and say, "You plagiarist! Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- We can root out every error, every plagiarist, every bias but it won't do any good if we replace them with a gutless inoffensiveness.
- The plagiarist snatches the writer's brainchildren, pieces of his soul.