prepense

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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

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

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

For the same reason, Macaulay's genuine eloquence is marred by the symptoms of malice prepense.

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir