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People in dishonour finding success after effort? (10)

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attainment

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'effort?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'people in dishonour' is the wordplay.
'people' becomes 'men' (men are people).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'dishonour' becomes 'attaint' (synonyms).
'men' going inside 'attaint' is 'ATTAINMENT'.

'finding success after' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for attainment that I've seen before include "Feat achieved" , "Act of achieving something" , "Realisation" , "Skill, achievement" , "The achievement (of a goal)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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