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

And this malice prepense never uprose within him, except in the presence of some bumptious, ignorant nobody.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

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

But I do it, not of malice prepense, but as in duty bound.

From A Modern Symposium by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

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