俗ぞく吏り

noun

petty official; low-ranking bureaucrat

A somewhat literary or formal term for a minor government official, often with a nuance of being narrow-minded or overly bureaucratic.

• 彼かれは俗ぞく吏りに過すぎないが、役やく所しょでは幅はばを利きかせている。

  He is nothing more than a petty official, but he throws his weight around at the office.

• 俗ぞく吏りの対たい応おうに苛立いらだつ市し民みんも少すくなくない。

  Not a few citizens are irritated by the responses of petty officials.