Synonyms for checkered


Grammar : Adj
Spell : chek-erd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʃɛk ərd


Définition of checkered

Origin :
  • late 14c., past participle adjective from checker (v.). Checkered past attested by 1831.
  • adj patterned
Example sentences :
  • His sleep was checkered with starts and moans, and sometimes with a muttered word or two.
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • But without knowledge of it that progress will be checkered and perhaps futile.
  • Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann
  • Rousseau, at the end of his checkered life, from 1770 to 1778, lived in Paris.
  • Extract from : « Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution » by Alpheus Spring Packard
  • The lower portion of the body is silvery white, checkered with black.
  • Extract from : « The Western World » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • In all his checkered life, that had left its deepest stamp on him in Italy.
  • Extract from : « The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 9 » by Various
  • It was checkered and gridironed with pavements and electric lights.
  • Extract from : « Jersey Street and Jersey Lane » by H. C. Bunner
  • The right side of her checkered dress was soaked with blood from shoulder to waist.
  • Extract from : « Shaman » by Robert Shea
  • All the strange, checkered past seems to crowd now upon my mind.
  • Extract from : « Lincoln's Yarns and Stories » by Alexander K. McClure
  • It lures to allegory, this checkered board, these jousts and far crusades.
  • Extract from : « Expository Writing » by Mervin James Curl
  • He has had a checkered life, but it has evidently been a happy one.
  • Extract from : « Stories of Invention » by Edward E. Hale

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