At the seafront centre, admitting looking dissatisfied (8)

I believe the answer is:

frowning

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'looking dissatisfied' is the definition.
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'at the seafront centre admitting' is the wordplay.
'at' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'centre' says to take the centre.
'admitting' becomes 'owning' (I've seen this before).
The centre of 'seafront' is 'fr'.
'fr' put next to 'owning' is 'FROWNING'.

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