滥 Stroke Order

covetous and corrupt officers

to be in flood / to overflow (the banks) / to inundate / to spread unchecked

inundation / flooding

lit. to flood (idiom) / fig. rampant / in plague proportions

to misuse / to abuse

willfully slaughter the innocent (idiom)

spam / overissue

riffraff / scum / lowlife / despicable / inferior

to bomb indiscriminately

to kill indiscriminately / to massacre

to churn out large quantities without regard for quality (idiom); rough and slipshod work

cliché / commonplace / truism / stereotype

lit. floating wine goblets on a stream / the origin (of some phenomenon)

hackneyed talk / platitude

lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products / to masquerade as having an ability / token member of a group

to denude / illegal logging / forest clearance

excessive deforestation