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Awkward handling dentures drunk exposed here (10)

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I believe the answer is:

understeer

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'awkward handling' is the definition.
Although both the answer and 'handling' are verbs, they are not in the same form of the verb.

'dentures drunk exposed here' is the wordplay.
'drunk' indicates an anagram.
'exposed' means to look at the middle letters (the inside of the word is exposed).
The central letters of 'here' are 'er'.
'dentures' with letters rearranged gives 'underste'.
'underste'+'er'='UNDERSTEER'

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