Crossword-Solution: RIDDANCE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Riddance | n. | The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out. |
| Riddance | n. | The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RIDDANCE | anagram | CARDEDIN |
We have 18 clues for the answer “RIDDANCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Good ___!" ("Glad you're leaving!") | 1 answer |
| act of getting rid of something undesirable or unpleasant | 1 answer |
| Word often heard after "good" | 1 answer |
| This is often good | 1 answer |
| Sometimes this is good! | 1 answer |
| Sometimes it's good | 1 answer |
| Republican? I would rave, perhaps, for removal | 1 answer |
| Ouster; dislodgement | 1 answer |
| Clearing away | 1 answer |
| CLEAN sweep | 11 answers |
| extrication | 12 answers |
| Clearing. | 19 answers |
| Disposal | 24 answers |
| Jettison | 27 answers |
| Rubbish | 64 answers |
| Relief | 86 answers |
| Escape | 87 answers |
| Good __ | 110 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RIDDANCE (5)
Tomorrow ere fresh Morning streak the East With first approach of light, we must be ris’n, And at our pleasant labour, to reform Yon flourie Arbors, yonder Allies green, Our walks at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scant manuring, and require More hands then ours to lop thir wanton growth: Those Blossoms also, and those dropping Gumms, That lie bestrowne unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease; Mean while, as Nature wills, Night bids us rest.
Ducie, man Todd and man Candlish are gone out of your life, and a good riddance! They are fine fellows in their way, but no proper associates for the like of yourself; and do you finally agree to be done with all eccentricity—take up with no more drovers, or tinkers, but enjoy the naitural pleesures for which your age, your wealth, your intelligence, and (if I may be allowed to say it) your appearance so completely fit you.
All I say is, good riddance to bad rubbish.” “Then good-bye.” He nodded and limped away slowly, for he hoped with all his heart that she would call him back.
Scarce a leaf stirs; only now and again a great, cool gush of air that makes my papers fly, and is gone.—The King of Samoa has refused my intercession between him and Mataafa; and I do not deny this is a good riddance to me of a difficult business, in which I might very well have failed.
Before mounting my gry, however, I bethought me to ask what could have induced the dead woman to make away with herself--a thing so uncommon amongst Romanies; whereupon one squinted with his eyes, a second spirted saliver into the air, and a third said that he neither knew nor cared; she was a good riddance, having more than once been nearly the ruin of them all, from the quantity of brimstone she carried about her.
Quotes with RIDDANCE (3)
Graham Chapman, co-author of the "Parrot Sketch", is no more. He has ceased to be. Bereft of life, he rests in peace. He's kicked the bucket, hopped the twig, bit the dust, snuffed it, breathed his last, and gone to meet the great Head of Light Entertainment in the sky. And I guess that we're all thinking how sad it is that a man of such talent, of such capability for kindness, of such unusual intelligence, should now so suddenly be spirited away at the age of only forty-eigh…
The day you start giving yourself priority and catering to your own needs first, that day everything will fall in place. Most of us were taught (or believed) that taking care of your own needs first is being selfish. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Unless you look after yourself first, how can you look after others? It has been proved beyond reasonable doubt that if you want to help others, you have to take care of your own needs first. No, you are not being selfish by…
Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the thick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NY Sun, NYT, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1954–2010).