picayune in English

adjective
1
petty; worthless.
the picayune squabbling of party politicians
noun
1
a small coin of little value, especially a 5-cent piece.
While still agonizing over this traumatic separation, he is approached by a white man who offers him a picayune .
adjective

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1. His action was unwarranted, picayune, and vindictive.

2. The misery suffered in this war makes your own problems seem pretty picayune.

3. A few cuts and bruises are picayune compared to what might have happened.

4. A few burns to the feet and ankles are picayune compared to what might have happened.

5. List of bridges in the United States List of longest bridges in the world Megaproject Prestressed concrete Christine Harvey, New Orleans Times-Picayune.

6. Glen “Cubby” Ford, a caring husband, father, grandfather and friend, passed away in his hometown of Picayune, Mississippi on January 21, 2021 at the age of 88

7. Update: West has been ruled out of Sunday's game against Detroit because of a sprained right ankle, the New Orleans Times Picayune reports.

8. The trouble with your studying is that you spend too much time on picayune details and not enough on the really important matters.

9. Old editions of the Times Picayune, New Orleans' daily newspaper, have been successfully used by the researchers to produce butanol from the cellulose in the paper.