in borrowed plumes

  • 21derivation — Synonyms and related words: IC analysis, acceptance, accidence, acquisition, admission, admittance, adoption, affiliation, affix, affixation, allomorph, ancestry, apparentation, appropriation, assumption, beginning, birth, blood, bloodline,… …

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  • 22imitation — Synonyms and related words: accordance, acting, adoption, affected, agent, agreement, alike, alikeness, alliance, alternate, alternative, analogy, aped, aping, apocryphal, approach, appropriation, approximation, artificial, assimilation, assumed …

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  • 23infringement — Synonyms and related words: adoption, appropriation, arrogation, assumption, bad faith, bankruptcy, borrowed plumes, breach, breach of contract, breach of faith, breach of law, breach of privilege, breach of promise, breach of trust, breakage,… …

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  • 24mocking — Synonyms and related words: adoption, appropriation, assumption, bantering, booing, borrowed plumes, catcalling, chaffing, copying, derisive, derisory, derivation, deriving, fleering, flippant, fooling, grinning, hissing, hooting, imitation,… …

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  • 25pastiche — Synonyms and related words: adoption, all sorts, appropriation, art object, assemblage, assortment, assumption, blend, borrowed plumes, brainchild, bric a brac, broad spectrum, burlesque, caricature, certified copy, classic, composite,… …

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  • 26plagiarism — Synonyms and related words: adoption, appropriation, assumption, autoplagiarism, borrowed plumes, borrowing, copying, counterfeiting, cribbing, derivation, deriving, doubling, duplication, echo, emulation, fakery, following, forgery, hit off,… …

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  • 27simulation — Synonyms and related words: accordance, acting, adoption, affectation, agreement, alikeness, alliance, analogy, aping, appearance, approach, appropriation, approximation, assimilation, assumption, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, borrowed plumes …

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  • 28taking — Synonyms and related words: acceptable, acceptance, acquisition, admission, admittance, adoption, adorable, agreeable, alluring, annexational, appealing, appetizing, appropriation, assumption, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing,… …

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  • 29Deception — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Deception >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 deception deception Sgm: N 1 falseness falseness &c. 544 Sgm: N 1 untruth untruth &c. 546 Sgm: N 1 imposition imposition imposture Sgm: N 1 fraud …

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  • 30Seaman, Sir Owen — (1861 1936)    Born in London, he was educated at Shrewsbury a boys boarding school on the banks of the River Severn and overlooking the ancient townwhere he was captain. He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, in 1883 and was successively a… …

    British and Irish poets