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Decry faultless service going round the country (7)

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slander

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'faultless service going round the country' is the wordplay.
'faultless service' becomes 'ser' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'going round' is an insertion indicator (some letters go around others).
'the country' becomes 'land' ('land' can be a synonym of 'country').
'ser' placed around 'land' is 'SLANDER'.

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(Other definitions for slander that I've seen before include "False malicious spoken statement" , "Malicious speech" , "False or malicious report" , "Damaging statements" , "Malicious gossip" .)

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