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

“Yes, and she was far more racketty than I,” said I with malice prepense.

From The Claw by Stockley, Cynthia

"There was no malice prepense to-day," said Mr. Linden.

From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan

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 he attempted it of malice prepense it was often laboriously unfunny.

From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Matthews, Brander