prepense

Example Sentences

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On this subject he spares no sensibilities, not even his own, minces no words, without malice prepense.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he attempted it of malice prepense it was often laboriously unfunny.

From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Matthews, Brander

Anania spoke in the tone of an injured woman, defrauded of her rights by the malice prepense of Stephen.

From One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

It would need only a little malice prepense to make him out a deserter from the flag, and the fact of his having borne a false name would go far to establish his guilt.

From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann

It proved that Susan's departure was plainly premeditated—"with malice prepense," to quote Judge Fitch—since all her best clothes had gone with her.

From Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs by Warner, Anne