bad news travels fast

a thousand, 1000

(chiefly literary) truly; indeed; without doubt

evildoing (evil or wicked act)

failure, miscarriage / mistake, fault, error

fail / make a mistake

straight, not bent

直ぐ: immediately, right away, soon / 直ぐ: quick to / 直ぐ: right next to, right close by

(obsolete) 過ぐ: classical form of modern 過ぎる (sugiru, “to go through, to go past; to exceed”)

(obsolete) 挿ぐ: classical form of modern 挿げる (sugeru, “to connect or affix one thing to another, especially by passing something through something else”)