[
US
/ˌpɪkiˈjun/
]
ADJECTIVE
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(informal) small and of little importance
our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
a little (or small) matter
limited to petty enterprises
a fiddling sum of money
piffling efforts
piffling efforts
a footling gesture
a dispute over niggling details
How To Use picayune In A Sentence
- Governments now claim to have a mandate for a battery of items in the manifesto, however picayune each may be.
- Jack West told The Times-Picayune that the driver picked up 29-year-old Jennifer Gille of St. Clair Shores, Mich., about 1 a.m. Sunday. Naked Woman Steals Cab In Louisiana
- Times Picayune had an editorial earlier this week describing what they called a grotesque and nauseating pattern of police cover-ups. Democracy Now!
- The cyclist behind me lands the jump but slams on his brakes and skids to a stop next to my picayune wreck.
- From all accounts, they are motivated solely by the desire to protect the Dear Leader from any picayune criticism of his divinely inspired policies.
- The exercise of judicial discretion in a case such as the present may seem at first blush a picayune matter.
- In short, save for the picayune fact he had no bus-driving credentials, he was the perfect bus driver.
- This is not a picayune instance but, in my experience, the industry norm.
- His campaign has been forced to hire paid signature gatherers in a number of states and to shell out huge sums to fend off constant and frequently picayune legal challenges to its petitions.
- Jack West told The Times-Picayune that the driver picked up 29-year-old Jennifer Gille of St. Clair Shores, Mich., about 1 a.m. Sunday. Naked Woman Steals Cab In Louisiana