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Immorality from John with senses defective (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

looseness

'immorality' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'john with senses defective' is the wordplay.
'john' becomes 'loo' (loo is a kind of john).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'defective' indicates anagramming the letters.
'senses' is an anagram of 'seness'.
'loo'+'seness'='LOOSENESS'

'from' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for looseness that I've seen before include "immorality" , "Inexactitude" , "A lack of strictness" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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