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Uncommonly nice and pure about a bit of rumpy-pumpy? This is being just the opposite (9)

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I believe the answer is:

prurience

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'uncommonly nice and pure about a bit of rumpy-pumpy? this is being just the opposite' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'uncommonly nice and pure about a bit of rumpy' is the wordplay.
'uncommonly' indicates an anagram.
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a bit of' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'rumpy' is 'r'.
'nice' put after 'pure' is 'purenice'.
'purenice' anagrammed gives 'purience'.
'purience' placed around 'r' is 'PRURIENCE'.

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(Other definitions for prurience that I've seen before include "Unhealthy interest in sex" , "Lewdness -- epic rerun (anag)" , "Unhealthy interest in sexual matters" , "Morbid interest in sex etc" , "Lust" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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