Less than perfect devious sons aren't commonly taken in (2,6)
I believe the answer is:
no saints
'less than perfect' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'devious sons aren't commonly taken in' is the wordplay.
'devious' is an anagram indicator.
'aren't commonly' becomes 'ain't' (non-standard or 'common' way of saying 'aren't').
'taken in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'sons' with letters rearranged gives 'noss'.
'noss' going around 'aint' is 'NO SAINTS'.
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