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

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

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

He has squandered thousands of dollars in riotous living, and brought no end of disgrace on the family whose name he bears.

From Boy Scouts on the Great Divide or, The Ending of the Trail by Fletcher, Archibald Lee

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