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

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

We have no alternative but to believe you guilty, with deliberate forethought, with ‘malice prepense.’

From Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life by Reid, Elizabeth

His main defects are two: he was too much a poet of malice prepense, and yet he wrote on the whole too fluently.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

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