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riddance

noun as in release

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There was almost nothing good about it, and we saw it off with a “good riddance” and hopes for a better 2021.

Good riddance, say many—but such distinctions have brought us things like, you know, medicine.

As Solomon says, “myth building makes quick riddance of inconvenient facts,” and the same could be said of dramatization.

Good riddance, I thought, and I didn't plan on ever coming back.

He's clearly a troubled man, but he's also a gonif and a loser, so good riddance to him.

Michael C. Moynihan says good riddance to the failed pontiff.

But as no junk-man came, and as no one could be found to care for its now sadly battered hulk, its good riddance became a problem.

Simmy Gordon, the village cut-up, said hit was a cheap funeral fer Ugly en good riddance.

Mebbe it'll die fightin', same's he did, and I never'll hear no more from it,—and a good riddance.

He went on to declare with that loud voice of his that the death of Lopez was a good riddance of bad rubbish.

Good riddance of bad rubbish, as can't help making a beast of itself.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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