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Dress up lie foolishly covering a resentment (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

displeasure

'resentment' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'dress up lie foolishly covering a' is the wordplay.
'foolishly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'covering' indicates putting letters inside.
'dress'+'up'+'lie'='dressuplie'
'dressuplie' with letters rearranged gives 'displesure'.
'displesure' going around 'a' is 'DISPLEASURE'.

(Other definitions for displeasure that I've seen before include "Annoyance, disapproval" , "Feeling of annoyance" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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