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 Brander Matthews
We have no alternative but to believe you guilty, with deliberate forethought, with ‘malice prepense.’
From Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life by Elizabeth Reid
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 Hermann Sudermann
The poor man, already overpowered by struggling with refractory colonists from Heligoland to New Zealand, was of malice prepense stirring up this additional swarm of hornets.
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Sir Leslie Stephen
