Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. chiefly UK alternative spelling of checkered.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. patterned with alternating squares of color
Examples
“What you might call a chequered career," he commented.”
“It has what people fearful of causing offence might call a chequered history.”
“Nor was "chequered" confined to square divisions, as it usually is now, but included spots of any size or shape.”
“These were laid in rows upon the "chequered" cloth which covered the table.”
“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.”
“Seldom would the term "chequered" more graphically describe a political career.”
“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.”
“Pardew said: I have had a kind of chequered career with that club.”
“The official F1 logo is featured on the engines and motor racing's famous 'chequered' flag is on the tail fin.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chequered’.
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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Summer 12
vitrine, viaduct, traceries, taxonomic, ternary, vicegerent, stratagem, vermeil, shippon, rostral, scherzando, retinue and 197 more...
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chiefly british
windlestraw, boffin, poppet, bloody, motorway, telly, git, tyre, windscreen, zebra crossing, panda car, lorry and 61 more...
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treeseed as in chequered past uneven or inconsistent, and characterized by periods of trouble or controversy as well as periods of success
Jan 19, 2008