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

She'll certainly think I've done it out of malice prepense, as it is.

From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.

And this malice prepense never uprose within him, except in the presence of some bumptious, ignorant nobody.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

Anania spoke in the tone of an injured woman, defrauded of her rights by the malice prepense of Stephen.

From One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

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