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Not pleasant but feuding is settled without force (10)

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I believe the answer is:

unedifying

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'pleasant but feuding is settled without force' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'not' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'not' could be 'un' (prefix meaning 'not') and 'un' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'edifying' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Another definition for unedifying that I've seen is " degrading".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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