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Scuffed

Scuff \Scuff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scuffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Scuffing.] [See Scuffle.] To walk without lifting the feet; to proceed with a scraping or dragging movement; to shuffle.

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scuffed
  1. referring to something that has been scratched or marked by contact with another object v

  2. (past participle of scuff English)

Usage examples of "scuffed".

Flinx scuffed idly with one booted foot at a patch of delicate dark blue azurite crystals.

He wore a black slouch hat, a black sateen shirt, a vivid red bandanna handkerchief, blue serge pants and a pair of scuffed brown oxfords.

He wore a thick black beard, a black sateen shirt, a bright, red bandanna handkerchief, a black slouch hat, and scuffed brown oxfords.

It was hard to make out marks in the clumpy, dry earth, but there were depressions that looked like footprints, scuffed areas, places where clods had been overturned, showing their dark undersides.

Vanyel had a moment to register disappointment at the scuffed floor, dusty furnishings, and fuded paint before the leonine Bard at the window-end of the room began the class.

Bent double and howling as I was they had me across the central room and through the other door and into a sparsely furnished office on the other side, where they dropped me on to a stool in front of a scuffed and seedy deal and hardboard desk.

From his black head to his scuffed mockado shoes, Thady Boy was relaxed.

Fenn scuffed the top of a molehill with his shoe as he raced toward his chosen spot.

More accurately, the floors were scuffed and dusty, the striped wallpaper was faded into spectral cords, the high ceiling was webby, and the air was stale.

There is the usual gleaming white oversuit - the thermal micrometeorite garment - with the lower legs and overshoes scuffed and stained with Tycho dust.

Two years of mistreatment had not marred the finish too much, although the case was scuffed here and there, and had been torn and remended with tiny, careful stitches along the belly.

Its walnut veneer had been scuffed and repolished so many times down the centuries that the surface was almost completely black, with only the odd, even deeper sable swirl to show the original beautiful grain pattern.

She was no higher than his armpit and rather the ragamuffin in scuffed brown high-top shoes with knots in their strings and a sacky brown pinafore-shaped dress whose patch pockets sagged.

His scuffed shoes, however unmilitary, evidently instilled confidence.

He scuffed the powder into the earth and then, just to make sure the weapon could not fire, he wrenched the doghead away from the lock and threw it into the river.