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ill news spreads apace

ill news spreads apace proverb: bad news circulates quickly because people tend to gossip.

Proverb

ill news spreads apace

  1. (archaic) Bad news circulates quickly because people tend to gossip.
    • Aware of the too great proneness of his countrymen to ideas of despondency, knowing that ill news spreads apace, and that in an overgrown metropolis few have the opportunity of ocular demonstration of the state of the country's agriculture, this insidious letter has been written, that it might...1812, The Scouge; or Monthly Expositor of Imposture and Folly, Vol IV, page 135
    • Ill news spreads apace, nor was it long before the tale reached Ertha von Reuth.1908, Norman Innes, My lady's kiss: a romance, page 127

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Questions about ill news spreads apace

What does ill news spreads apace mean?
Ill news spreads apace means bad news circulates quickly because people tend to gossip.
What part of speech is ill news spreads apace?
Ill news spreads apace is a proverb.

Words near ill news spreads apace in the dictionary

  1. ill humour
  2. ill humours
  3. ill luck
  4. ill name
  5. ill names
  6. ill news spreads apace
  7. ill off
  8. ill repute
  9. ill turn
  10. ill turns
  11. ill will

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