Synonyms for riddance
ˈrɪd nsrid·dance

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1. riddance

   Synonyms:
   quittance, dispensation, liberation, escape

   Antonyms:
   entanglement, burden, nuisance, annoyance

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1. elimination, riddancenoun

   the act of removing or getting rid of something

   Synonyms:
   reasoning by elimination, excretion, ejection, excreting, expulsion, liquidation, elimination, voiding, exclusion, evacuation

2. ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddancenoun

   the act of forcing out someone or something

   "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school"

   Synonyms:
   exception, ejection, extrusion, censure, excommunication, forcing out, elimination, projection, exclusion, expulsion, elision

Matched Categories

1. • Banishment
   • Removal

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1. riddancenoun

   Synonyms:
   freedom, escape, relief, deliverance

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1. riddancenoun

   Synonyms:
   deliverance, relief, disencumbrance

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1. List of paraphrases for "riddance":

   storeroom, stockade, closet

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How to use riddance in a sentence?

1. John Bowman:

   Good riddance to a racist who has no business managing our public lands... And he should be removed from his acting role immediately.

2. Elise Stefanik:

   Good riddance to the Worst Governor in America, under Andrew Cuomo’s failed leadership, New Yorkers suffered corruption scandal after corruption scalndal, illegal criminal acts committed on the taxpayers’ dime, and unhinged political vengeance and retaliation creating a toxic political culture systemic in Albany.

3. Michelle Malkin:

   Good riddance to Joy Karega, she was an untenured and unhinged loon whose anti-Semitic diatribes and barely literate social media rantings shamed Oberlin and all of American higher education.