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
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
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
Why charge such a man with malice prepense?
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
"There was no malice prepense to-day," said Mr. Linden.
From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan
