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
Why charge such a man with malice prepense?
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
Granger, however, was the first who introduced it in the form of a treatise, and surely "in an evil hour" was this treatise published—although its amiable author must be acquitted of "malice prepense."
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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)
"There was no malice prepense to-day," said Mr. Linden.
From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan
