醜

shameful / ugly / disgraceful

10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the Rooster / ancient Chinese compass point: 270° (west)

ghost / demon / terrible / damnable / clever / sly / crafty / (suffix for sb with a certain vice or addiction etc) / one of the 28 constellations

shameful / scandalous / to be humiliated / to make a fool of sb or oneself / to make sb lose face

ugly person

scandal

to defame / to libel / to defile / to smear / to vilify

family scandal / skeleton in the closet

(used self-deprecatingly, e.g. when asked to sing a song) to put one's artistic incompetence on display

Don't spread abroad the shame of the family, don't believe rumors lightly. (idiom) / Don't wash your dirty linen in public, don't listen to others' gossip.

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[gao1 fu4 shuai4]

to disfigure

ugly people will do all kinds of weird things to get attention (idiom)

absurd drama / farce / disgraceful show

an ugly wife is a treasure at home (idiom)

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

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

see 兒不嫌母醜，狗不嫌家貧|儿不嫌母丑，狗不嫌家贫[er2 bu4 xian2 mu3 chou3 , gou3 bu4 xian2 jia1 pin2]

lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom); fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public