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Spoiling jewellery around hem is wrong (10)

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I believe the answer is:

blemishing

'spoiling' is the definition.
(blemishing is a kind of spoiling)

'jewellery around hem is wrong' is the wordplay.
'jewellery' becomes 'bling' (informal term for jewellery).
'around' is an insertion indicator.
'wrong' indicates anagramming the letters.
'hem'+'is'='hemis'
'hemis' is an anagram of 'emish'.
'bling' placed around 'emish' is 'BLEMISHING'.

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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