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Dislike swear-word in middle of bulletin (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

loathe

'dislike' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'swear-word in middle of bulletin' is the wordplay.
'swear-word' becomes 'oath' (I've seen this before).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'middle of' means to look at the middle letters.
The middle letters of 'bulletin' are 'le'.
'oath' put inside 'le' is 'LOATHE'.

(Other definitions for loathe that I've seen before include "Abhor, detest" , "Strongly detest" , "Cordially detest, thoroughly dislike" , "Find disgusting" , "Can't stand" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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