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Other customers with lustrous hair and unscuffed shoes simply glance at the drinks line, then duck their heads and dart toward the restrooms.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023

The perception of an untouched, unscuffed room is a powerful marketing tool.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 18, 2016

It looked brand new, its leather unscuffed, and it was set at a fashionable angle rather than up against the wall.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2014

Shaven-headed, wearing a creaseless grey T-shirt, blue jeans and unscuffed trainers, he could pass for off-duty military.

From The Guardian • May 6, 2010

But when Adam left Mimi watching television and sat at his desk in the evening with the humming, unscuffed, and gleaming laptop before him, fingers poised over the keys, nothing came.

From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Doctorow, Cory