Southern racist moving back to front through dictionary to arrive at ‘rejected (10)
I believe the answer is:
ostracised
'arrive at 'rejected' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'southern racist moving back to front through dictionary' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'southern' could be 's' (abbreviation) and 's' is present in the answer.
an anagram of 'racist' is 'tracis' which is located in the answer.
'dictionary' could be 'oed' (Oxford English Dictionary) and 'oed' is located in the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ostracised that I've seen before include "shunned" , "out in the cold" , "excluded from society" , "Sent to Coventry" , "banished?" .)