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Misery as pride shattered (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

despair

'misery' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'as pride shattered' is the wordplay.
'shattered' indicates an anagram.
'as'+'pride'='aspride'
'aspride' is an anagram of 'DESPAIR'.

(Other definitions for despair that I've seen before include "gloom" , "Misery" , "Lose heart" , "Despond" , "sort of counsel?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun and The Telegraph.
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