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

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

To his having been in this condition, several of the Court domestics, at the time called out of their beds, with purpose prepense, were able to bear witness.

From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne

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)

And Sterne's exquisite curiosity of oddness, his subtile extravagances and humors prepense.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various