Definition of checkered past
:a past history of having done bad things or been in trouble
- The senator has a checkered past.
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checkered
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: marked by alternation or contrast of fortune
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past
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: ago
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: just gone or elapsed
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: having existed or taken place in a period before the present : bygone
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: beyond the age for or of
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: after
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: at the farther side of : beyond
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: time gone by
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: something that happened or was done in the past
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: the past tense of a language
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: so as to reach and go beyond a point near at hand
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