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

Innocent accidental monkeys in towels may have thus served to usher into serious neighborhoods monkeys in towels that were such with malice prepense.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

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

For the same reason, Macaulay's genuine eloquence is marred by the symptoms of malice prepense.

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

She'll certainly think I've done it out of malice prepense, as it is.

From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.