Force delay between registering mouse clicks

My left mouse button is starting to wear out, and as a consequence sometimes a single click gets interpreted as two clicks. Is there a way to force it to timeout for a fraction of a second (I'd have to experiment to find a good value, of course) before it recognizes another click, or some other way in software to work around this issue?

Obviously I can always buy a new mouse, but for environmental sustainability and financial frugality reasons, if I can work around this hardware problem in software to put off when I have to replace it that'd be great.