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
Before Lilian was four years old, she had ridden in a carriage of his construction, which he boasted the most unskilful hand on the most unequal road could not, except from malice prepense, upset.
From Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest by McIntosh, Maria J. (Maria Jane)
Why charge such a man with malice prepense?
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
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
"You are clear from all charge of malice prepense," she said.
From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan
