checkered

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Adjective

checkered

1. Divided into squares, or into light and dark patches.

   That is a checkered tablecloth.

2. (figurative) Changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty.

   I have a checkered past.

Translations

• French: à carreaux, échiqueté (especially in heraldry)
• German: kariert, schachbrettartig
• Italian: scaccato, a quadri, quadrettato, a scacchi, a quadretti
• Portuguese: quadriculado, axadrezado, xadrez
• Russian: кле́тчатый
• Spanish: a cuadros, ajedrezado, escaqueado

Translations

• German: wechselvoll
• Italian: variegato, contrastato, a luci e ombre
• Russian: пёстрый

Verb

1. Simple past tense and past participle of checker

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