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Show active disrespect for one poor critic's conclusions — teased outrageously (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

desecrate

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'show active disrespect for one poor critic's conclusions teased outrageously' is the definition.
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'one poor critic's conclusions teased outrageously' is the wordplay.
'conclusions' suggests the final letters (I've seen 'conclusion' mean this).
'outrageously' indicates an anagram.
The final letters of 'one poor critic' are 'erc'.
'erc'+'teased'='ercteased'
'ercteased' with letters rearranged gives 'DESECRATE'.

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(Other definitions for desecrate that I've seen before include "Violate the sacred" , "Treat (something sacred) with great disrespect" , "Secreted a means to treat something sacred with disrespect" , "Spoil" , "Profane" .)

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