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At sea crew initially persisted in bad manners (10)

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I believe the answer is:

disrespect

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'bad manners' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both human attributes as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'at sea crew initially persisted' is the wordplay.
'at sea' indicates anagramming the letters.
'initially' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letter of 'crew' is 'c'.
'c'+'persisted'='cpersisted'
'cpersisted' anagrammed gives 'DISRESPECT'.

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(Other definitions for disrespect that I've seen before include "Contempt" , "Lack of reverence" , "showing scorn" , "Discourtesy" , "Rudeness" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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