chequered

They have a chequered history, but it does include saving the planet once before from an existential threat.

An authentic rogue that is - nobody is pretending that he isn't flawed or doesn't have a chequered history.

Do not heap too much praise on Samsung - they have a very chequered history.

Not OP, but: rapid development, poor regulatory oversight, and a markedly chequered record when it comes to environmental considerations.

Sweden has a chequered history when it comes to it relation to Jews.

Even if IBM has a chequered past, Microsoft has a very nasty recent history of anti-competitive and plain unethical behaviour under the current administration.

Amusingly: Audi didn't tell anyone about FSI until after the chequered flag.

I'd imagine you can also train an LLM on patterns that encoders choke on...chequered patterns etc.

Apple and Google have a chequered history of cherry-picking which social networking apps are allowed on their platform, based on content in those apps.

But to be fair, Microsoft's four decades of returning non stop profits is more remarkable than Apple's relatively recent success and it's chequered record overall.

Never understood where he got the clown-like colourful chequered spaceships from.

I also had no idea of the chequered history of Google's messaging apps.

Target's Air Conditioner, potentially the only song in history, including any future history, to incorporate the lyric "fingering chequered knits".

Psion's "Chequered Flag" (and Pole Position, iirc) filled this spot for us.

It's not "he was wearing the same chequered shirt!" either.

Chequered would be for cheques, as in pay cheque.