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

One of the biographers points out that this promotion was brought about inadvertently through the riotous living of Gray's great enemy, Lord Sandwich.

From Stories of Authors, British and American by Chubb, Edwin Watts

For one thing is certain, that the riotous living now carried on in Heidelberg can no longer be tolerated, the noise in the streets till late at night, that everlasting firing, music, and rioting.

From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Hausrath, Adolf

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