chequered

a fallen woman with a chequered past.

a great plain chequered with corn and green mosses.

the chequered history of post-war Britain.

the court has had a chequered career .

The Keystone XL pipeline has had a chequered history.

One part of my very, very chequered past I worked as a chef so I really enjoy cooking.

The north London district of Kings Cross, where Google's new gaff is going, has something of a chequered past.

Argentina’s chequered past with the IMF stretches back more than six decades.

And just, it's me and my knob, we have a bit of a chequered past.

It contained a large table covered with a chequered oilcloth and round the walls was a set of stiff chairs.

I'm currently a columnist with the paper on the weekend and have a chequered history across various disciplines, from running money to advising people running money.

The surplices of the choristers gleamed, rainbow-tinted, beneath the coloured windows; the sunlight lay on the chancel floor in chequered stains of orange and purple and green.

As he handed it back, the chequered sunlight fell on his bared head and wide, uplifted eyes, and cast a crimson glow across the white veil that his ministers were folding round him.

He sat as one sitting for a portrait, motionless, watching the chequered lights and shades on the tree-trunks, the children playing opposite the school previous to entering for the morning lesson, the reapers in a field afar off.