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checkered
[ chek-erd ]
adjective
- marked by numerous and various shifts or changes; variegated:
a checkered career.
- marked by dubious episodes; suspect in character or quality:
a checkered past.
- marked with squares:
a checkered fabric.
- diversified in color; alternately light and shadowed:
the checkered shade beneath trees.
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Other Words From
- un·checkered adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of checkered1
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Example Sentences
On a “warm up session,” he can be seen donning a checkered shirt and baseball hat atop his bushy ponytail.
Your character has a great look, with the short bob and the checkered dress.
He started out with a mixed, checkered record [and] seemed to be ready to build a good relationship with the West.
Although it should be noted that Feldman does have a checkered past.
In a video uploaded to YouTube, a young man, wearing a checkered keffiyeh over his face, said he was a Svoboda member.
In short, the news was exactly of that checkered order which was calculated to put us all in the highest spirits.
She sat all alone, plucking nervously at the red-and-white checkered tablecloth.
Together we rejoiced at the escape of Sill and Lamson, and made merry over the vicissitudes of my checkered career.
The ground is checkered with flakes of sunlight that fall through the leaves, and over all is the silence of the summer noon.
Here the merry chase had swept the hills; here revelry and pageantry had checkered a life of fierce strife and haughty oppression.
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