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
She'll certainly think I've done it out of malice prepense, as it is.
From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.
It was the very age of impostors, cut-purses, swindlers, double gaugers, enthusiasts, ambiguous persons, quacks simple, quacks compound, crack-brained or with deceit prepense, quacks and quackeries of all colors and kinds.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
His most characteristic style exhibits a prepense ideal, of form rather than character, with a slight mode of handling, and silvery, somewhat cold, colour.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
Mrs. Rodney has of malice prepense secluded herself from public gaze at least for an hour.
From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess
