cheq·uered in AM, use checkered1. If a person or organization has had a chequered career or history, they have had a varied past with both good and bad periods. He had a chequered political career spanning nearly forty years Alan had led a very chequered past and had been to prison lots of times
Something that is chequered has a pattern with squares of two or more different colours. red chequered tablecloths. = checked. a British spelling of checkered