Calmly dishonest, taking in English court (8)
I believe the answer is:
sedately
'calmly' is the definition.
(I know that calmly can be written as sedately)
'dishonest taking in english court' is the wordplay.
'dishonest' becomes 'sly' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'taking in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'court' becomes 'date' (romantically pursue).
'e'+'date'='edate'
'sly' placed around 'edate' is 'SEDATELY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sedately that I've seen before include "without getting ruffled" , "Primly" , "With composure" , "Staidly or with dignity" , "Calmly, unhurriedly" .)