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View definitions for malice prepense

malice prepense

adverb as in malice aforethought

noun as in premeditation

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Example Sentences

Before him this legend consisted of half a dozen great divisions—a word which may be used of malice prepense.

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

This was no harmless action, it looks like malice prepense, unless indeed they excited her anger unintentionally.

One man, either through ungovernable passion or malice prepense, takes the life of another.

Mr. Shackford had been killed--either with malice prepense or on the spur of the moment--for his money.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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