[
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.
- Our fleet consisted of a Picayune delivery truck, two cars, bicycles, a kayak and a canoe.
- New Orleans Times-Picayune, the involuntary manslaughter charge was dropped after Grant pleaded no contests to misdemeanor "affray" - fighting two or more persons in a public place. Chicagotribune.com - News
- Caught between the work rules of the teachers' unions and the picayune regulations of the central bureaucracy, they find themselves imprisoned in a mechanical system organized like an industrial factory.
- My space is up, and I never got to write about abecedarian, mussitate, tetragram or picayune (also from Lindsey). AugustaChronicle.com: Top News and Blogs
- Yet beside these we find other sources suggesting that it is not appropriate to be too picayune.
- Don't think this was a picayune issue with no larger consequences.
- ‘'Clothing should glorify, not vulgarize, the body,’ Beene said in a 1996 interview with The Times-Picayune.
- Having fewer picayune regulations might lead coaches to commit more strongly to those that matter.
- The cameras in the classroom are teaching students to be ever more obedient; that is, to internalize the rules and to accept as legitimate an authority that polices even the most picayune infractions.
