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

And I do not bring M——, which is a grief; still, I look forward to a deal of riotous living, and to many sources of public and private satisfaction.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

To jail!" said he, "ah, I see how it is; you have wasted your substance in riotous living, and are going to pay for your improvidence and folly.

From My Mother's Gold Ring Founded on Fact Eighth Edition by Sargent, Lucius M.

One might imagine there could be no difficulty in showing how in that wild period of riotous living and costly rivalry an Irish gentleman ran through all his property and left himself penniless.

From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James