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

Granger, however, was the first who introduced it in the form of a treatise, and surely "in an evil hour" was this treatise published—although its amiable author must be acquitted of "malice prepense."

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

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

It would need only a little malice prepense to make him out a deserter from the flag, and the fact of his having borne a false name would go far to establish his guilt.

From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann

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