prepense
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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
It was the very age of impostors, cut-purses, swindlers, double gaugers, enthusiasts, ambiguous persons, quacks simple, quacks compound, crack-brained or with deceit prepense, quacks and quackeries of all colors and kinds.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
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 M. (Madelaine) Irwin
She'll certainly think I've done it out of malice prepense, as it is.
From The War-Workers by E.M. Delafield
When a sperm whale destroys a boat with his flukes, it is probably accident; but he bites with malice prepense and pernicious.
From The Sea Bride by Ben Ames Williams
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