prepense
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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
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 Sir Leslie Stephen
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 John Augustus O'Shea
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 Ben Ames Williams
To his having been in this condition, several of the Court domestics, at the time called out of their beds, with purpose prepense, were able to bear witness.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
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