malice 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
"There was no malice prepense to-day," said Mr. Linden.
From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan
“Yes, and she was far more racketty than I,” said I with malice prepense.
From The Claw by Stockley, Cynthia
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 Williams, Ben Ames
Granger, however, was the first who introduced it in the form of a history; and surely "in an evil hour" was that history published; although its amiable author must be acquitted of "malice prepense."
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
