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New shirt got discarded outside? That's improvident (5-7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

short-sighted

'improvident' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'new shirt got discarded outside?' is the wordplay.
'new' is an anagram indicator.
'discarded' becomes 'shed' (I've seen this before**).
'outside?' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'shirt'+'got'='shirtgot'
'shirtgot' with letters rearranged gives 'ortsight'.
'ortsight' inserted inside 'shed' is 'SHORT-SIGHTED'.

'that's' is the link.

(Another definition for short-sighted that I've seen is " Myopic".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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