MickeyMouse

MickeyMouse
Mickey Mouse adj. Slang
1.
a. Unimportant; trivial: “It's a Mickey Mouse operation compared to what goes on in Lyons or Paris” (Jack Higgins).
b. Irritatingly petty:

the school's Mickey Mouse requirements for graduation.

2. Intellectually unchallenging; simple:

His Mickey Mouse assignments soon bored the students.

3. Melodramatic or sentimental. Used especially of popular music.
  [After the cartoon character Mickey Mouse, created by Walt Disney.]

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