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Hostile female entering inn, rudely dancing (10)

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I believe the answer is:

unfriendly

'hostile' is the definition.
(associated in meaning)

'female entering inn rudely dancing' is the wordplay.
'female' becomes 'f' (abbreviation).
'entering' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'dancing' is an anagram indicator.
'inn'+'rudely'='innrudely'
'innrudely' with letters rearranged gives 'unriendly'.
'f' going inside 'unriendly' is 'UNFRIENDLY'.

(Other definitions for unfriendly that I've seen before include "Hostile" , "Disagreeable" , "Aggressive" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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