| làn | excessive/indiscriminate |
| 滥 | overflowing excessive indiscriminate |
| 滥交 | to fall into bad company to make acquaintances indiscriminately |
| 滥伐 | to denude illegal logging forest clearance |
| 滥刑 | indiscriminate punishment |
| 滥发 | overissue |
| 滥垦 | to cultivate farms in areas where soil conservation should be maintained |
| 滥套子 | platitude pointless talk |
| 滥捕 | heavy fishing; overfishing |
| 滥杀 | to kill indiscriminately to massacre |
| 滥杀无辜 | willfully slaughter the innocent (idiom) |
| 滥漫 | arbitrary indiscriminate |
| 滥用 | to abuse |
| 滥用无度 | to use without limit |
| 滥用权力 | abuse of power |
| 滥用权势 | to throw one's weight about; to abuse one's authority |
| 滥用毒品 | drug misuse |
| 滥用经费 | to squander funds |
| 滥用职权 | abuse of power |
| 滥竽 | indiscriminately included in company (without any qualification) see idiom 濫竽充數|滥竽充数 |
| 滥竽充数 | 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 |