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

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

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

I’m not wasting my physical substance in riotous living.

From The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews by Bangs, John Kendrick

Morgan himself buried none of his vast treasure, although legend persists in saying so, nor did he waste it in riotous living.

From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Paine, Ralph Delahaye

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall