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Ate without said goulash being scorned (9)

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I believe the answer is:

disdained

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

'ate without said goulash' is the wordplay.
'ate' becomes 'dined' (dining is a kind of eating).
'without' means one lot of letters goes inside another ('without' can be similar in meaning to 'outside').
'goulash' indicates an anagram (goulash is a type of stew or mixture).
'said' is an anagram of 'sdai'.
'dined' placed around 'sdai' is 'DISDAINED'.

(Another definition for disdained that I've seen is " Scorned".)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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