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Definition of riddance
1 : an act of ridding
2 : deliverance, relief —often used in the phrase good riddance especially to express relief that someone or something has gone
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Examples of riddance in a Sentence
the riddance of all the fleas from the house was a relief to everyone concerned
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Hair transformations — by cut or color — can help say good riddance to a particularly tough chapter and oftentimes herald in something better.
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On the other side were those who were happy to see the statues go, holding African Liberation flags and signs saying good riddance to white supremacy.
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That person will not be missed, so honestly, good riddance to her and every other filtered version of herself.
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DEPT OF GOOD RIDDANCEMurderous cult leader Charles Manson is seriously ill and has been moved from a California prison to a hospital in Bakersfield, according to the L.A. Times’s Richard Winton and Hailey Branson-Potts.
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This is it, my friends: 2016 has gone in a puff of evil Satanic smoke, and good riddance.
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The general sentiment seems to be: Good riddance to this year.
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First Known Use of riddance
1524
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