yào
hǎo
kàn

common
idiom

Meaning of 要好看

要好看 means to make someone look bad; to embarrass; to cause someone to lose face. Pronounced yào hǎo kàn.

  • to make someone look bad; to embarrass; to cause someone to lose face

Definitions & Examples

Yào
dāng
zhòng
biǎo
yǎn
 
jiǎn
zhí
shì
yào
de
hǎo
kàn
 

Making me perform in public is simply setting me up for embarrassment.

zài
lǎo
bǎn
miàn
qián
wèn
shàng
lái
de
wèn
 
shì
yào
de
hǎo
kàn
ma
 

You deliberately asked me questions I couldn't answer in front of the boss—aren't you trying to make me look bad?

Zhè
chǎng
sài
men
pài
zhǔ
shàng
chǎng
 
fēn
míng
shì
yào
men
de
hǎo
kàn
 

They sent their main players for this match, obviously trying to show us up.

zhè
yàng
zuò
 
shì
yào
hǎo
kàn
ma
 

Isn't he trying to embarrass me by doing this?