Definition of fast-living in English:
fast-living
adjective
engaging in a lifestyle characterized by excitement, extravagance, and risk-taking: he was a fast-living genius who died too young a fast-living set who have made a career of gambling
More example sentences
- He reacts in horror to the idea that he fits the stereotype of a fast-living, risk-loving hedge-fund manager.
- In the public imagination he was one of a gang of fast-living footballers frequenting nightclubs and driving fast cars.
- She began working for a doctorate on 17th-century English literature at Columbia University and soon established herself as part of a fast-living intellectual and literary crowd.
- As World War II raged in Europe and beyond, the fast-living upper classes carried on as though nothing had changed from their pre-war hey-day.
- In the film, DiCaprio portrays a fast-living Wall Street whizz kid, whose questionable methods of getting rich land him behind bars.
- Miami Beach's Fontainebleau hotel was the hard-talking, fast-living centre of American celebrity in its 1960s heyday.
- These songs take a deeper look at what happens when a fast-living punk rocker grows older.
- When the fast-living novelist left the literary haunts of New York for the pleasure-seeking splendors of LA, he thought he'd have fame, fortune and the love of a good woman.
- Dallas Buyers Club is the story of a fast-living rodeo cowboy given weeks to live in the 1980s after an HIV diagnosis.
- Thanks largely to the performers in this book, it's long been rock and roll lore that 27 is a doomed age for fast-living rockers, as so many greats have passed at that age.
noun
(fast living) [mass noun] a lifestyle characterized by excitement, extravagance, and risk-taking: she has a reputation for fast living
More example sentences
- I don't spend on silly toys, flash cars and fast living any more.
- Far from being a dilettante with a skill for spending the family cash on fast living, he is serious about a business with which not many people are familiar.
- Drugs, alcohol, and fast living ruined any chances I had at a comeback, and I was forced into a downward spiral of shame and evil.
- The dream of fast cars, fast living and fast fortunes is as attractive as ever but, for many, the odds of achieving it are lengthening fast.
- Somehow these youngsters not only survive in the district known for fast living, drugs and alcohol abuse, but they're putting themselves through college.
- I thought I was dying, but it turns out it was stress-related, a combination of bad diet, too much fast living and panic attacks.
- His liver was damaged beyond repair by years of fast living and alcoholism.
- His flamboyant style on the slopes was matched by a reputation for fast living off piste.
- It was an age of fast living and slow thinking.
- The actor was as famous for his fast living, hard drinking and acerbic wit as for his performances.
- For aspirational readers, Bond's fast living and conspicuous consumption epitomised modern sophistication.
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