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
The poor man, already overpowered by struggling with refractory colonists from Heligoland to New Zealand, was of malice prepense stirring up this additional swarm of hornets.
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Sir Leslie Stephen
She'll certainly think I've done it out of malice prepense, as it is.
From The War-Workers by E.M. Delafield
“Yes, and she was far more racketty than I,” said I with malice prepense.
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
His main defects are two: he was too much a poet of malice prepense, and yet he wrote on the whole too fluently.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
