Unmarried woman and Parisian adjust badly (6)
I believe the answer is:
misset
'adjust badly' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'unmarried woman and parisian' is the wordplay.
'unmarried woman' becomes 'miss' (as opposed to Mrs).
'and parisian' becomes 'et' ('and' in French).
'miss'+'et'='MISSET'
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(Another definition for misset that I've seen is " put wrongly".)
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