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

Bent upon mischief, she had, malice prepense, dressed herself with unusual care, and arranged her hair in a new style of coiffure, which proved very becoming.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

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)

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

It would need only a little malice prepense to make him out a deserter from the flag, and the fact of his having borne a false name would go far to establish his guilt.

From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann