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

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.

To his having been in this condition, several of the Court domestics, at the time called out of their beds, with purpose prepense, were able to bear witness.

From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne

But I do it, not of malice prepense, but as in duty bound.

From A Modern Symposium by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

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