People in dishonour finding success after effort? (10)
I believe the answer is:
attainment
'effort?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'people in dishonour' is the wordplay.
'people' becomes 'men' (men are people).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'dishonour' becomes 'attaint' (synonyms).
'men' going inside 'attaint' is 'ATTAINMENT'.
'finding success after' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for attainment that I've seen before include "Feat achieved" , "Act of achieving something" , "Realisation" , "Skill, achievement" , "The achievement (of a goal)" .)