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Calmly dishonest, taking in English court (8)

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I believe the answer is:

sedately

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'calmly' is the definition.
(I know that calmly can be written as sedately)

'dishonest taking in english court' is the wordplay.
'dishonest' becomes 'sly' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'taking in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'court' becomes 'date' (romantically pursue).
'e'+'date'='edate'
'sly' placed around 'edate' is 'SEDATELY'.

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(Other definitions for sedately that I've seen before include "without getting ruffled" , "Primly" , "With composure" , "Staidly or with dignity" , "Calmly, unhurriedly" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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