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Said "Awful racket outside" with scorn (7)

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I believe the answer is:

disdain

'scorn' is the definition.
(I know that scorn can be written as disdain)

'said awful racket outside' is the wordplay.
'awful' indicates an anagram.
'racket' becomes 'din' (both can mean a loud noise or disturbance).
'outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'said' with letters rearranged gives 'sdai'.
'sdai' inserted within 'din' is 'DISDAIN'.

'with' is the link.

(Other definitions for disdain that I've seen before include "no respect" , "Contumely" , "Hauteur" , "Show scorn" , "Scorn - feeling of superiority" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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