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n. Rigid adherence to official regulations, forms, and procedures.

n. The rigid, perfunctory and literal adherence to official duties and regulations

n. Officials collectively

n. The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism.

n. Official position; office-holding; public office.

n. An official system.

n. That view of official position which regards office, and the mere discharge of official duty, without reference to public or other interests, as all-important; excessive attention to official routine and office detail; official strictness or stiffness; “red-tapeism.”

n. Perfunctoriness.

"a sprinkled smell, in the light flit, over the garden-floor, of bareheaded girls with the buckled strap of oblong boxes, in the type of ancient thrifty persons basking betimes where terrace-walls were warm, in the blue-frocked brass-labelled officialism of humble rakers and scrapers, in the deep references of a straight-pacing priest or the sharp ones of a white-gaitered red-legged soldier."

jobsworth   

red-tapism    bureaucratism    officiality    red-tapeism    functionaryism   

jew-baiter    maliciousness    officialdom    lackof    corruptibility