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impudent
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And Then There Were None
- Every time Vera thought of her she seemed to see a pale drowned face with seaweed entangled in the hair...A face that had once been pretty—impudently pretty perhaps—and which was now beyond the reach of pity or terror.†
p. 127.9
Definition:
improperly bold or disrespectful -- especially toward someone who is older or considered to be of higher status