riotous living

Idioms  

1. An extravagant, dissolute lifestyle, as in Two years of riotous living, and they'd squandered the entire inheritance. This term was first recorded in 1389.

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riotous living

Those who eluded Scotland Yard for a while had a hellish time, and it is clear that little of the $6,400,000 that is still unaccounted for went towards riotous living.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hard at work from morn till dewy eve, that is from daylight to dark, a matter of fourteen hours, there was scant space or opportunity for riotous living.

From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf

But these times balanced themselves by occasional periods of luxury and riotous living, particularly at the beginning of the year, when their income figured before their ever-sanguine eyes, untouched, infinite and inexhaustible in its possibilities.

From The Furnace by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

They squander their means in riotous living, and walk not in the ways of their fathers.

From Contemporary One-Act Plays by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

He was so torn up over his two failures that he blew in his share of the perambulator money in riotous living.

From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Nicholson, Meredith