plagiarist
noun [ C ] uk/ˈpleɪ.dʒər.ɪst/ us/ˈpleɪ.dʒɚ.ɪst/
剽窃者
a person who uses another person's ideas or work and pretends that it is their own
The reporter was shown to be a liar and a plagiarist. 该记者被证明是个说谎者和剽窃者。
The self-confessed plagiarist admits that his new novel borrows from his own past work "hugely".
See: plagiarize
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- The paper unmasked one of its reporters as a serial plagiarist and fraud.
- Although the man is a plagiarist, he is not a deliberate plagiarist.
- Plagiarists are not clever or they'd be doing their own work.