easy target

Like a parodist, the plagiarist should aim higher.

making bad choices

If the plagiarist had real talent she would have stolen a better poem.

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pickpockets practice magic tricks too

The publisher tries to explain away his prize-winning author’s plagiarisms as instances of careless ‘intertextuality’.

target exposed

The plagiarist’s target was an unknown, but after the theft was noticed for the first time.