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Brood about one's ill-treatment (6)

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misuse

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'ill-treatment' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'brood about one's' is the wordplay.
'brood' becomes 'muse' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'one's' becomes 'I's' (Roman numeral).
'muse' placed around 'is' is 'MISUSE'.

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(Other definitions for misuse that I've seen before include "exploitation" , "bad practice" , "Apply badly or incorrectly" , "Ill-treat" , "bad treatment" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian, The Globe and Mail and The Telegraph.
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