汚お吏り

noun

corrupt official

Archaic term for a government official who engages in bribery or embezzlement. Not used in modern Japanese; encountered only in historical texts.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの文もん書じょには「汚お吏り」という言こと葉ばがしばしば見みられる。

  The word 汚吏 often appears in documents from the Edo period.