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malice prepense



NOUN
premeditation
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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

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

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

Several rifles and revolvers, which the haste of the previous surrender, or malice prepense, had overlooked, were now included.

From White Fire by Oxenham, John

The Parisian did not view it in that light, and downfaced me that these rustics, to whose aid he was actually going, tried to murder him of malice prepense.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by O'Shea, John Augustus

But I was doing it with malice prepense, and I was doing it for a purpose.

From Princess Zara by Knight, Bert




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