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College class extremely lazy to a man? (9)

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I believe the answer is:

uniformly

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'to a man?' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adverbs. Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'college class extremely lazy' is the wordplay.
'college' becomes 'uni' (short for university).
'class' becomes 'form' (form class is a kind of class).
'extremely' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (only the extremes of the word are used).
'lazy' with its middle taken out is 'ly'.
'uni'+'form'+'ly'='UNIFORMLY'

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(Other definitions for uniformly that I've seen before include "Evenly" , "In unvarying manner - while wearing formal clothing?" , "In a regular way" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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