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Tease a lord, being heartless and vulgar (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ribald

'vulgar' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'tease a lord being heartless' is the wordplay.
'tease' becomes 'rib' (I've seen this before).
'being heartless' means to remove the middle letters.
'lord' with its centre taken out is 'ld'.
'rib'+'a'+'ld'='RIBALD'

'and' is the link.

(Other definitions for ribald that I've seen before include "Coarsely mocking" , "Humorous in vulgar or disrespectful way" , "Humourous in vulgar way" , "Funny, but not nice" , "Scurrilous, bawdy" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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