bush-league

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They resort to bush-league tactics.

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  1. adjective Baseball Of or belonging to a minor league.
  2. adjective Slang Of inferior or unprofessional quality; second-rate: a bush-league advertising campaign.

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  • Hopefully as the industry grows we can move away from this type of bush-league material and get on to more substantial things. —  Gaming Nexus
  • Why don't you and your ignorant boss "help reconstruct" the US '"economy and infrastructure that was destroyed" by eight years of The bush-league Administration?!? —  Progressive Bloggers
  • It was a bush-league feint reminiscent of the body-double stunt Kilpatrick's Detroit Police Executive Protection Unit employed last year during one of the then-mayor's court appearances. —  nancynall.com
  • American well-beings hang in the balance, and to call for this plan, for the Presidency to fail is bush-league. —  Arkansas News
  • But those bush-league voices can neither de-mythologize baseball nor play hardball with a big-league cultural historian such as Barzun. —  MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
 

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