checkered
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7.2
- adjective
- /ˈtʃɛkərd/
- US
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historia variada
- Her checkered past includes both remarkable achievements and significant failures.
- checkered history
He had a checkered, difficult, struggling life here.
- He had a checkered, difficult, struggling life here.
Examples
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I love it when your checkered past comes in handy.
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He had a checkered, difficult, struggling life here.
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- You used to like my checkered past.
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All the strange checkered past seems to crowd now upon my mind.
Fiction book (2001) -
So yeah, tough cookie and a checkered history as well.
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And our past is checkered with horrible mistakes that we've made as a nation.
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History, however, recalls a more sordid and checkered story.
Academic text (2003) -
Congressman Gary Miller of California has a long and checkered history of ethical run-ins since being elected to the House of Representatives in 1998.
Blog text (14) -
Compared to men's professional basketball, women's professional basketball in the United States has a much shorter and checkered history.
Academic text (1998) -
Many U.S. and Mexican proponents seem surprisingly unaware, however, of the long and checkered history of such policies, and quite innocent of the unwanted effects they have produced in both origin and destination countries.
Academic text (2001)
Antonyms
Compounds
A harmless tan and brown snake with an arrow-shaped spot on its head and sometimes red stripes
A garden flower with hanging bell-shaped petals patterned with purple checks
How Varied
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Checkered comes from the same idea as a checkerboard with light and dark squares, so a 'checkered' past is easy to imagine as a life with both good and bad parts. That's why checkered means a past with both successes and failures.