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Barnier's art is misconstrued as inconsistency (13)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

arbitrariness

'inconsistency' is the definition.

'barnier's art is misconstrued' is the wordplay.
'misconstrued' indicates an anagram.
'barniers'+'art'+'is'='barniersartis'
'barniersartis' anagrammed gives 'ARBITRARINESS'.

'as' is the link.

(Another definition for arbitrariness that I've seen is " Random quality".)

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