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Curses temp leaving Miles with vile sex deviant (10)

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I believe the answer is:

expletives

'curses' is the definition.
('expletive' can be a synonym of 'curse')

'temp leaving miles with vile sex deviant' is the wordplay.
'leaving' is a deletion indicator.
'miles' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'deviant' indicates anagramming the letters.
'temp' with 'm' taken out is 'tep'.
'vile'+'sex'='vilesex'
'tep' put after 'vilesex' is 'vilesextep'.
'vilesextep' is an anagram of 'EXPLETIVES'.

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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