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Found things difficult when lied to badly (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

toiled

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'found things difficult' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'lied to badly' is the wordplay.
'badly' is an anagram indicator (letters in the wrong order).
'lied'+'to'='liedto'
'liedto' with letters rearranged gives 'TOILED'.

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(Other definitions for toiled that I've seen before include "Worked incessantly" , "Struggled long and hard" , "Worked long and hard" , "Worked or laboured very hard" , "Laboued long and hard" .)

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