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

“Simply because I never premeditatedly, and with malice prepense, bore myself by joining parties composed of persons in whom I have not an atom of interest.”

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

And this malice prepense never uprose within him, except in the presence of some bumptious, ignorant nobody.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

Mrs. Rodney has of malice prepense secluded herself from public gaze at least for an hour.

From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

Granger, however, was the first who introduced it in the form of a history; and surely "in an evil hour" was that history published; although its amiable author must be acquitted of "malice prepense."

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall