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Examples
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A mickey-mouse box-kick from Eoin Reddan does little to help Ireland's cause.
Rugby World Cup 2011: Ireland v Wales - live! | Barry Glendenning 2011
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I won't grouse about anything governmental, but I'll just note that it's further evidence that the "video game industry" is definitely no longer the mickey-mouse form of entertainment many thought it was for a long time.
Weapons and Technology from the Gaming Industry? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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My personal tech is a ruggedized analog pocket-watch for everyday, vintage mickey-mouse wrist watch for dress occasions.
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The Cooper Hewitt is one of the primary reasons we visit Manhattan and for the last several visits the shows have been mickey-mouse.
Build Blog » Open Letter to the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum 2009
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Why does a water molecule have that mickey-mouse shape?
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Quantum Mechanics, But Were Afraid to Ask Sean 2008
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We would be in the back of the room having just finished doing all of the mickey-mouse stuff and the whole place would be together with him.
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I don't want any of my taxes going towards student - what for - 3 years of drunken vandalism and a mickey-mouse degree.
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No system is, so send your ideas and complaints to those who can change things and plan ahead to work with the system we have (no matter how mickey-mouse you think it is) until something better comes along.
BlueOregon 2009
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Crappy universities like Birmingham City University and the University of the West of England are offering "mickey-mouse" degrees in subjects that students will struggle to find jobs in for obscene amounts of money instead of pushing students into real academic degrees in order for them to learn something of use.
PSFK 2009
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Their patronizing remarks above and their mickey-mouse changes to their verbiage and layout are too little too late.
bilby commented on the word mickey-mouse
In honour of small, upstanding, forever-grinning rodents everywhere.
November 21, 2007
everett commented on the word mickey-mouse
adjective: describes an incompetent, amateurish operation that cannot be relied on to complete serious work. See also: bush-league.
They messed up my records, and to make matters worse, they're closed on weekends and don't even have an answering service. That's the last time I go to this mickey-mouse doctor's office.
December 15, 2014