Near enough lacking in tenderness (7)

I believe the answer is:

roughly

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'near' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for roughly that I've seen before include "Sort of; with violence" , "Approximately, more or less" , "In the neighbourhood of" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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