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Vice and anger could become a source of resentment (9)

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I believe the answer is:

grievance

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'resentment' is the definition.
(I know that grievance is a type of resentment)

'vice and anger could become' is the wordplay.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'could become' indicates anagramming the letters.
'vice'+'anger'='viceanger'
'viceanger' anagrammed gives 'GRIEVANCE'.

'a source of' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for grievance that I've seen before include "Bad feeling" , "Complaint" , "Reason for dissatisfaction" , "beef" , "gripe" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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