Party that's abominable ending in disarray -- ready to take a pummelling? (6)

I believe the answer is:

doughy

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'ready to take a pummelling?' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'party that's abominable ending in disarray' is the wordplay.
'party' becomes 'do' (do is a kind of party).
'that's abominable' becomes 'ugh' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'ending in' says to take the final letters.
The last letter of 'disarray' is 'y'.
'do'+'ugh'+'y'='DOUGHY'

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(Another definition for doughy that I've seen is " Soft".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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