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checkered

/chek-erd/US // ˈtʃɛk ərd //

格纹,格子的,格子,有格子的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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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Examples

  • The field of dreams is nothing if not a place for players with checkered pasts who nonetheless can’t let the game go.

  • A small bearded man, Coccia turned up in a blue suit and blue checkered tie, completely inappropriate attire for the outdoors, even though we had agreed that we would take a walk in the forest together.

  • Dysregulation isn’t the only psych term with a checkered past definition that Kennedy uses in a lighter, more evolved way.

  • It is well past time for medicine’s checkered past to give way to a future where the fabric of women’s experience is recognized and respected in its entirety.

  • Surveillance technologies and the San Diego border have a checkered history.

  • 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.