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

When a sperm whale destroys a boat with his flukes, it is probably accident; but he bites with malice prepense and pernicious.

From The Sea Bride by Williams, Ben Ames

We have no alternative but to believe you guilty, with deliberate forethought, with ‘malice prepense.’

From Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life by Reid, Elizabeth

Innocent accidental monkeys in towels may have thus served to usher into serious neighborhoods monkeys in towels that were such with malice prepense.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

His main defects are two: he was too much a poet of malice prepense, and yet he wrote on the whole too fluently.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George