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

But the malice prepense must be inferred, from words, deeds, and circumstances.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

I am not going to say that Lizzy Davis did this of "prepense;" I am even candid enough to acknowledge to you that I am not quite sure I can understand her.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James

“Simply because I never premeditatedly, and with malice prepense, bore myself by joining parties composed of persons in whom I have not an atom of interest.”

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

Occasionally they come into keen polemical strife; but it amounts to little more than a gladiatorial exhibition, or rather a light skirmishing, without malice prepense, or much evil result.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert