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Without scruple I will take Maoism to extremes in speech (9)

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I believe the answer is:

immorally

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'without scruple' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'i will take maoism to extremes in speech' is the wordplay.
'will take' says to put letters next to each other.
'to extremes' means to remove the middle letters.
'in speech' becomes 'orally' (oral means relating to speech).
'maoism' with its middle taken out is 'mm'.
'i'+'mm'+'orally'='IMMORALLY'

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(Another definition for immorally that I've seen is " In a bad way".)

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