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
Why charge such a man with malice prepense?
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
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
Mrs. Rodney has of malice prepense secluded herself from public gaze at least for an hour.
From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
