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Sweat embarrassingly in a tuxedo? (9)

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I believe the answer is:

exudation

'sweat' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'embarrassingly in a tuxedo?' is the wordplay.
'embarrassingly' indicates an anagram.
'in'+'a'+'tuxedo'='inatuxedo'
'inatuxedo' is an anagram of 'EXUDATION'.

(Another definition for exudation that I've seen is " Discharge".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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