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
Bent upon mischief, she had, malice prepense, dressed herself with unusual care, and arranged her hair in a new style of coiffure, which proved very becoming.
From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
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
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)
“Simply because I never premeditatedly, and with malice prepense, bore myself by joining parties composed of persons in whom I have not an atom of interest.”
From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
