malice 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
He has some design—some malice prepense, of which he does not desire her to be a witness.
From The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover by Mayne Reid
It proved that Susan's departure was plainly premeditated—"with malice prepense," to quote Judge Fitch—since all her best clothes had gone with her.
From Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs by Anne Warner
Occasionally they come into keen polemical strife; but it amounts to little more than a gladiatorial exhibition, or rather a light skirmishing, without malice prepense, or much evil result.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull
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 M. (Madelaine) Irwin
