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riotous living
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Idioms and Phrases
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.Discover More
Example Sentences
Mrs. Mussel gets five of it and the rest I may waste in riotous living.
But he had wasted his substance in riotous living, and was reduced to a small pension from the Government.
The capitalist wastes part in riotous living; the rest must find a foreign market.
Would he go on to greater days of beauty or would he stumble, idling his time, wasting his substance in riotous living?
The men camped out, and spent their time in riotous living I fear.
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