plagiarised
/ˈpleɪdʒəˌraɪzd/
adjective
- Describing something that has been copied from someone else's work without permission or credit.
- The artist was sued for selling plagiarised designs.
- The teacher found plagiarised passages in the student's report.
- The book contained plagiarised material from an earlier novel.
verb
- To copy someone else's work, ideas, or words and pretend they are your own.
- The journalist plagiarised several articles from a rival newspaper.
- The student plagiarised an entire paragraph from a website for her essay.
- He was expelled after it was discovered he had plagiarised his thesis.