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

But I do it, not of malice prepense, but as in duty bound.

From A Modern Symposium by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

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

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)

Why charge such a man with malice prepense?

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old