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Violently toss holy rug (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

roughly

'violently' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'toss holy rug' is the wordplay.
'toss' indicates anagramming the letters.
'holy'+'rug'='holyrug'
'holyrug' with letters rearranged gives 'ROUGHLY'.

(Other definitions for roughly that I've seen before include "Sort of; with violence" , "Approximately, more or less" , "In the neighbourhood of" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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