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Using droids is unsavoury (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sordid

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'unsavoury' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'using droids' is the wordplay.
'using' is an anagram indicator (the letters used in a different way).
'droids' anagrammed gives 'SORDID'.

'is' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for sordid that I've seen before include "meanness" , "Squalid or ignorable" , "Morally degraded" , "Dirty and unpleasant" , "Squalid, not honourable" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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