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Uninterested, having been brought up without love (5)

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I believe the answer is:

bored

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'uninterested' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'brought up without love' is the wordplay.
'brought up' becomes 'bred' (to breed is to bring up or raise).
'without' means one lot of letters goes inside another ('without' can be similar in meaning to 'outside').
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'bred' enclosing 'o' is 'BORED'.

'having been' is the link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for bored that I've seen before include "Short of things to do, maybe" , "Pierced" , "Robed (anag.)" , "Used drill on" , "Unstimulated" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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