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
- 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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- one who signs check
- one who signs the check
- one who signs the checks
- person who writes the checks
- pick up the check
- rain check
- raincheck
- re-check
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