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Repeatedly sick over women, creating resentment (3,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ill will

'resentment' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'repeatedly sick over women' is the wordplay.
'repeatedly' shows that letters should be duplicated.
'sick' becomes 'ill' ('ill' can be a synonym of 'sick').
'over' is an insertion indicator.
'women' becomes 'w'.
'ill' duplicated is 'illill'.
'illill' enclosing 'w' is 'ILL-WILL'.

'creating' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for ill will that I've seen before include "Malice - unfriendliness" , "causing resentment" , "Hostile and unkind feeling" , "Hostility, unkind feeling" , "Bitterness" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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