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Shambolic leaders bizarrely keeping one in trashy way (8)

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I believe the answer is:

shoddily

'in trashy way' is the definition.

'shambolic leaders bizarrely keeping one' is the wordplay.
'shambolic leaders' becomes 'sh' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'bizarrely' becomes 'oddly'.
'keeping' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'oddly' placed around 'i' is 'oddily'.
'sh'+'oddily'='SHODDILY'

(Another definition for shoddily that I've seen is " Carelessly".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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