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

She'll certainly think I've done it out of malice prepense, as it is.

From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.

And Sterne's exquisite curiosity of oddness, his subtile extravagances and humors prepense.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various

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

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