Scoundrel has a recruit badly parodied (11)

I believe the answer is:

caricatured

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'parodied' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'scoundrel has a recruit badly' is the wordplay.
'scoundrel' becomes 'cad' (cad is a kind of scoundrel).
'has' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'badly' is an anagram indicator (letters in the wrong order).
'a'+'recruit'='arecruit'
'arecruit' with letters rearranged gives 'ricature'.
'cad' enclosing 'ricature' is 'CARICATURED'.

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(Another definition for caricatured that I've seen is " Drew a grotesque picture of".)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.

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