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Displaying guile, Oscar is terribly irreverent (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sacrilegious

'terribly irreverent' is the definition.

'displaying guile oscar is' is the wordplay.
'displaying' indicates anagramming the letters (the anagrammed letters display the answer).
'guile'+'oscar'+'is'='guileoscaris'
'guileoscaris' is an anagram of 'SACRILEGIOUS'.

(Other definitions for sacrilegious that I've seen before include "Profane" , "Profaning holy things" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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