Definitions
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- adjective chiefly UK Alternative spelling of
checkered .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective patterned with alternating squares of color
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Examples
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"What you might call a chequered career," he commented.
Rat Race Francis, Dick 1970
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It has what people fearful of causing offence might call a chequered history.
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It has what people fearful of causing offence might call a chequered history.
Irish Blogs Independent.ie - Analysis RSS Feed 2010
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Nor was "chequered" confined to square divisions, as it usually is now, but included spots of any size or shape.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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These were laid in rows upon the "chequered" cloth which covered the table.
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864
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It led through the same kind of chequered scenery of rugged hill and cultivated plain as that already described, well covered with towns and villages, some of them the frontier posts occupied by the Otomies.
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The decision to give the tournament to Qatar did, however, provoke plenty of criticism from those concerned about what can most gently be described its "chequered" human rights record.
The Guardian World News Ian Black 2010
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The decision to give the tournament to Qatar did, however, provoke plenty of criticism from those concerned about what can most gently be described its "chequered" human rights record.
The Guardian World News Ian Black 2010
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Pardew said: I have had a kind of chequered career with that club.
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Seldom would the term "chequered" more graphically describe a political career.
The Statesman 2010
treeseed commented on the word chequered
as in chequered past uneven or inconsistent, and characterized by periods of trouble or controversy as well as periods of success
January 19, 2008