綱こう紀き紊びん乱らん

noun

laxity in official discipline; breakdown of public order

Formal, often used in political or bureaucratic contexts to describe a state where rules and discipline have collapsed.

• 汚お職しょく事じ件けんが相あい次つぎ、省しょう内ないの綱こう紀き紊びん乱らんが深しん刻こく化かしている。

  A series of corruption scandals has deepened the breakdown of discipline within the ministry.

• 綱こう紀き紊びん乱らんを正ただすために、厳きびしい処しょ分ぶんが下くだされた。

  Strict disciplinary measures were taken to correct the laxity in official discipline.