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Little in surprisingly bad scoreline (14)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

inconsiderable

'little' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'in surprisingly bad scoreline' is the wordplay.
'surprisingly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'bad'+'scoreline'='badscoreline'
'badscoreline' with letters rearranged gives 'considerable'.
'in'+'considerable'='INCONSIDERABLE'

(Other definitions for inconsiderable that I've seen before include "Unimportant, insignificant" , "petty" , "'minute'" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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