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Abusive about Victor being broke (9)

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I believe the answer is:

insolvent

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'being broke' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'abusive about victor' is the wordplay.
'abusive' becomes 'insolent' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'victor' becomes 'V' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'insolent' placed around 'v' is 'INSOLVENT'.

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(Other definitions for insolvent that I've seen before include "Gone bust, without a bean" , "without the means to pay" , "Snivel not, although you are bankrupt!" , "gone to the wall" , "Unable to pay debts owed" .)

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