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  *醜* | 醜* | *醜
shameful / ugly / disgraceful
HSK 5
scandal
HSK 7-9
ugly / repulsive
HSK 7-9
to make a fool of oneself
HSK 7-9
ugly
HSK 7-9
"The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Andersen 安徒生
ugly duckling
shameful performance / disgraceful situation
ugly person
scandal
(used self-deprecatingly, e.g. when asked to sing a song) to put one's artistic incompetence on display
ugly talk / vulgarity / obscenity
to defame / to libel / to defile / to smear / to vilify
family scandal / skeleton in the closet
ugly people will do all kinds of weird things to get attention (idiom)
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom) / fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
absurd drama / farce / disgraceful show
scandal
villain / evil person
ugly expression / unsightly manners
to slander
to make a fool of oneself
grotesque
(slang) United States; USA; US
lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom) / fig. it's not something you can avoid forever
let's talk about the unpleasant things first; let's be frank
(idiom) insignificant wretch
a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)
grotesque / extremely ugly / hideous
extremely ugly / incomparably hideous
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom); fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
(Internet slang) (of a man) unmarriageable (lit. short, ugly and poor) / opposite: 高富帥|高富帅
an ugly wife is a treasure at home (idiom)


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