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malice prepense



NOUN
premeditation
Synonyms


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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.

For the same reason, Macaulay's genuine eloquence is marred by the symptoms of malice prepense.

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

When he attempted it of malice prepense it was often laboriously unfunny.

From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Matthews, Brander

Why charge such a man with malice prepense?

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




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