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
It was the very age of impostors, cut-purses, swindlers, double gaugers, enthusiasts, ambiguous persons, quacks simple, quacks compound, crack-brained or with deceit prepense, quacks and quackeries of all colors and kinds.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
Why charge such a man with malice prepense?
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
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
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
