Picayune - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˌpɪkɪˈjuːn|
Brit.
|ˌpɪkəˈjuːn|
adjective
- (informal) small and of little importance (syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, piddling, trivial)
giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
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...our lives don't amount to a picayune in the great scheme of things...
They argued over the most picayune details.
...the picayune ponderings of a commentator who steadfastly believes other cultures are inferior to our own...
His life is not worth a picayune.
A few cuts and bruises are picayune compared to what might have happened.
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