Checkered
['tʃekəd] or ['tʃɛkəd]
Definition
(adj.) marked by changeable fortune; 'a checkered business career' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Checker
(a.) Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.
(a.) Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc.
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Examples
- Mother, please say that I am to go, urged Letty, whose life was much checkered by resistance to her depreciation as a girl. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But without knowledge of it that progress will be checkered and perhaps futile. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was bare and cool, with a table covered with a coarse checkered cloth and adorned by a bottle of pickles and a blueberry pie under a cage. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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