plagiaristic(形容词):剽窃的;抄袭的,指作品、文字或想法在未注明出处或未获许可的情况下借用他人成果,带有不诚实或不道德的意味。(也可泛指“带有抄袭特征的”。)
/ˌpleɪdʒəˈrɪstɪk/
The teacher said the paragraph was plagiaristic.
老师说这段文字有抄袭嫌疑。
The report was criticized for its plagiaristic use of earlier studies without proper citation, which damaged the author's credibility.
这份报告因未正确引用早期研究而带有抄袭式的挪用而受到批评,作者的可信度也因此受损。
plagiaristic 来自 plagiarize(剽窃、抄袭)加形容词后缀 -ic(表示“……的”)。plagiarize 源于拉丁语 plagiarius,原意与“绑架者、诱拐者”相关,后来引申为“偷窃他人的文字/思想”,因此这个词在英语里一直带有较强的道德指责色彩。