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Example sentences for "aforethought"

Lexicographically close words:
aforenamed; aforesaid; aforesaide; aforesayd; aforesayde; aforetime; aforn; aforsaid; afoul; afrade
  1. He never goes out with malice aforethought on a wolf-hunt, but if one of these animals crosses his track he may kill it, although always with inward foreboding.

  2. Picking our way among them, I particularly approve this term of the natives, attributing as it does a human conception and malice aforethought to these long-legged wraiths.

  3. Thus, to evade the penalty of law, and yet with malice aforethought to extend their evil intent, is the nice distinction by which [10] they endeavor to get their weighty stuff into the hands of gossip!

  4. The charge of malice aforethought in an indictment for murder has been shown not to mean a state of the defendant's mind, as is often thought, except in the sense that he knew circumstances which did in fact make his conduct dangerous.

  5. It will now be useful to take up malicious mischief, and to compare the malice required to constitute that offence with the malice aforethought of murder.

  6. But to have people go out from the faith of their fathers with malice aforethought and their eyes open--well, that is not exactly what I mean either.

  7. Papa doubts not, it was malice aforethought all of it.


  8. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aforethought" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advised; aforethought; calculation; considered; deliberate; deliberateness; deliberation; designed; forethought; predetermination; predetermined; premeditated; premeditation; studied; studious