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Injured lady heartlessly, without much thought (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

idly

'without much thought' is the definition.
(as in idly wondering something)

'injured lady heartlessly' is the wordplay.
'injured' becomes 'id' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'heartlessly' means to remove the middle letters.
'lady' with its centre taken out is 'ly'.
'id'+'ly'='IDLY'

(Other definitions for idly that I've seen before include "In a lazy way" , "in a careless manner" , "So lacking purpose" , "without thinking" , "How people may stand by" .)

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