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Cutting through corruption, start to speak to meeting in a deeply emotional way (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

viscerally

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'cutting through corruption start to speak to meeting in a deeply emotional way' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'through corruption start to speak to meeting in a deeply emotional way' is the wordplay.
'through' indicates putting letters inside (some letters go through others).
'corruption' becomes 'vice' (moral corruption).
'start to' says to take the initial letters.
'to meeting in a deeply emotional way' becomes 'rally' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The first letter of 'speak' is 's'.
'vice' enclosing 's' is 'visce'.
'visce'+'rally'='VISCERALLY'

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