吏り臭しゅう

noun

officialism; red tape; bureaucratic stench

Pejorative term for the rigid, self-serving, or obstructive behavior of officials; literally 'bureaucrat stench'. Often used in critical commentary about government or corporate bureaucracy.

• その役やく所しょの対たい応おうには吏り臭しゅうを感かんじた。

  I sensed officialism in the way that government office handled things.

• 吏り臭しゅう漂ただよう手て続つづきにうんざりした。

  I got fed up with the red-tape-ridden procedures.