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Mother left with diamonds, creating animosity (6)

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I believe the answer is:

malice

'animosity' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'mother left with diamonds' is the wordplay.
'mother' becomes 'ma' (ma is a kind of mother).
'left' becomes 'l' (common abbreviation).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'diamonds' becomes 'ice' (I've seen this before).
'ma'+'l'+'ice'='MALICE'

'creating' is the link.

(Other definitions for malice that I've seen before include "Ill will, a desire to harm others" , "Spite - desire to hurt" , "Malevolence, spite" , "Spiteful, animosity, sometimes a forethought" , "Spite or spleen, perhaps aforethought" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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