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Magazine complains too violently (12)

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I believe the answer is:

cosmopolitan

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'magazine' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.

'complains too violently' is the wordplay.
'violently' is an anagram indicator (letters are violently disrupted).
'complains'+'too'='complainstoo'
'complainstoo' with letters rearranged gives 'COSMOPOLITAN'.

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(Other definitions for cosmopolitan that I've seen before include "Citizen of the world" , "Worldly; cocktail" , "cocktail for a > man of the world" , "Urbane" , "Worldly, sophisticated" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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