checkered

From checker +‎ -ed.

checkered (comparative more checkered, superlative most checkered)

Divided into a grid of squares of alternating colours or shades, or into light and dark patches.
That is a checkered tablecloth.
(figurative) Changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures.
- 1876 October, Henry James, Jr., chapter XII, in The American, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], published 5 May 1877, →OCLC, page 197:
  “What a checkered career!” said Newman.

divided into squares

Arabic: مُرَبَّعَاتٍ (murabbaʕātin)
Asturian: axedrezáu
Bulgarian: кари́ран (bg) (karíran)
Burmese: ကျား (my) (kya:)
Catalan: escacat, endauat
Chinese:
Mandarin: 有方格的 (yǒu fānggé de)
Czech: kostkovaný, kárový
Danish: ternet
Dutch: dambordachtig, schaakbordachtig, geblokt (nl)
Finnish: ruudullinen (fi)
French: à carreaux, échiqueté (fr) (especially in heraldry), carreauté (fr) (Louisiana), en damier (fr)
Galician: axadrezado (gl)
German: kariert (de), schachbrettartig (de)
Hungarian: kockás (hu), pepita (hu)
Irish: seicear
Italian: scaccato (it), a quadri, quadrettato (it), a scacchi, a quadretti
Japanese: 格子模様の (こうしもようの, kōshi moyō no)
Malay: gandan
Norwegian: rutete
Ottoman Turkish: سطرنجلو (satranclı)
Persian: چارخانه (čârxâne)
Polish: kraciasty (pl), w kratkę
Portuguese: quadriculado (pt), axadrezado, xadrez (pt)
Romanian: caroiat
Russian: кле́тчатый (ru) (klétčatyj), в кле́тку (ru) (v klétku)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: коцкаст

Roman: kockast (sh)
Spanish: a cuadros, ajedrezado (es), escaqueado (es)
Swedish: rutig (sv), schackrutig (sv)
Turkish: damalı (tr), satrançlı (tr)
Welsh: sgwarog

changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures

Arabic: مُرِيب (murīb), مَشْكُوك فِيهِ (maškūk fīhi)
Bulgarian: пъстър (bg) (pǎstǎr)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: bont (nl)
Finnish: kirjava (fi), värikäs (fi)
German: wechselvoll (de)
Hungarian: (lit. “colorful”) tarka (hu), tarkabarka (hu), színes (hu), (changeable) változatos (hu), (eventful) fordulatos (hu), eseménydús (hu), mozgalmas (hu), (marked by many problems or failures) hányatott (hu), hányattatott
Italian: variegato (it), contrastato (it), a luci e ombre
Russian: пёстрый (ru) (pjóstryj), изме́нчивый (ru) (izménčivyj), разнообра́зный (ru) (raznoobráznyj)
Swedish: brokig (sv)

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