malice prepense
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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
Several rifles and revolvers, which the haste of the previous surrender, or malice prepense, had overlooked, were now included.
From White Fire by John Oxenham
The Parisian did not view it in that light, and downfaced me that these rustics, to whose aid he was actually going, tried to murder him of malice prepense.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
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
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 Hermann Sudermann
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