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
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 Stephen, Leslie, Sir
A man of dignity doesn't like to seem to bear tales with malice prepense.
From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Eggleston, Edward
But I do it, not of malice prepense, but as in duty bound.
From A Modern Symposium by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
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
