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- adverb In a premeditative manner; with
premeditation .
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Examples
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So you're saying that when a representative of the people premeditatively goes against the wishes of those he represents, Americans become more hopeful?
Freshman Dem: Passing health care reform worth losing my seat 2009
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Nixon as I understand him was a more tragic and less deliberately and premeditatively ruthless figure.
Conyers Tells Rob Kall: Impeachment Not Off the Table; A You Tube Video 2008
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KING: That would be clear to you if they premeditatively did it at age 13 and 14?
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Here was a man before whom John would always, but instinctively rather than premeditatively, endeavour to show his best side.
The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger
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The art which premeditatively determines the scope of its venture so that one sees at every step the curvature of its rounding up -- in a word the literary art -- was foreign to Mark Twain's nature.
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A person commits murder and perhaps associated unspeakably horrible crimes, so we as a state decide to premeditatively murder this person to show how wrong it is to kill.
NWAOnline.com stories < 2010
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I'm not sure anybody can quite put themselves in our shoes and understand what it must have felt like to start an idea in 2002, to approach a fellow student in 2004, to have it stolen, sabotaged, ripped off…he premeditatively sandbagged us.
Forbes.com: News Mike Isaac 2010
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You're right that most people didn't consciously and premeditatively go into their super-balloon payment ARM mortgages with the idea of ripping off the bank and the taxpayer.
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Sorry, but to me, pre-meditation is implicit in the act, and a man who premeditatively acts to dishonor his GF on public television isn’t a man in my book, to be so chauvinistic
Levi Johnson Jumps On the Sarah Palin Gravy Train - Erick’s blog - RedState 2009
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"I do not believe you did anything wrong, premeditatively.
Parrot & Co. Harold MacGrath 1901
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