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Teased outrageously but calm (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sedate

'calm' is the definition.
(I know that calm can be written as sedate)

'teased outrageously' is the wordplay.
'outrageously' indicates an anagram.
'teased' with letters rearranged gives 'SEDATE'.

'but' is the link.

(Other definitions for sedate that I've seen before include "Decorous" , "boring" , "Give calming drug to" , "Calm, not flighty" , "Calm or spectral appartition" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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