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Being dejected, give discontented girl ultimatum (4)

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I believe the answer is:

glum

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'being dejected' is the definition.
('glum' can be similar in meaning to 'dejected')

'give discontented girl ultimatum' is the wordplay.
'give' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'discontented' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (the word's contents are removed).
'ultimatum' becomes 'um' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'girl' with its centre removed is 'gl'.
'gl' put next to 'um' is 'GLUM'.

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(Other definitions for glum that I've seen before include "Blue" , "Doleful" , "Sad, down-in-th-mouth" , "Down at the mouth, gloomy" , "Unhappy" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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