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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Example Sentences

While the President chuckled, Reporter Wright explained that "Walter Lippmann says that you have been taking the 35� a week that Mark Sullivan sends you . . . and spending it on riotous living."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The school was empty; nearly all the masters had gone away; Colonel Creighton's railway-pass lay in his hand, and Kim puffed himself that he had not spent Colonel Creighton's or Mahbub's money in riotous living.

From Kim by Kipling, Rudyard

This, taken in conjunction with its opulent proportions, seemed to presage a prolonged period of riotous living.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart

Some times it was full of "skippers," that tunneled their way through and through it, and grew fat with riotous living.

From Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran by McElroy, John