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Pampered and upset without love (6)

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I believe the answer is:

spoilt

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'pampered' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'upset without love' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'love' could be 'o' (love means zero in tennis) and 'o' is present in the answer.
'upset' could be 'spilt' and 'spilt' is present in the leftover letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'and' is the link.

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(Other definitions for spoilt that I've seen before include "Marred" , "Deprived" , "Destroyed the value of" , "Pampered" , "Harmed" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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