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Roman occasionally loud, unfortunately, but rarely wicked (7)

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I believe the answer is:

unmoral

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'rarely wicked' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'roman occasionally loud unfortunately' is the wordplay.
'occasionally' indicates alternate letters.
'unfortunately' is an anagram indicator (a bad or unfortunate spelling).
The alternating letters of 'loud' are 'lu'.
'roman'+'lu'='romanlu'
'romanlu' with letters rearranged gives 'UNMORAL'.

'but' acts as a link.

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