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Synonyms for picayune:


adj. trivial

diminutive
everyday
frivolous
immaterial
incidental
inconsequential
inconsiderable
insignificant
irrelevant
little
meager
mean
meaningless
minor
minute
negligible
nonessential
paltry
petty
piddling
puny
slight
small
superficial
trifling
trite
unimportant

Examples of uses:

Mr. Sam, why don't you sell that little picayune farm of yours.
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You see, it's, uh — it's just picayune little things like that.
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Well, now, I can't do no comparing with a picayune peck like that.
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Is that exorbitant? Your Majesty! Don't be picayune, if it will give the Emperor any happiness.
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PLANK: This ain't gonna be no picayune affair. Looks like he's rounded up the whole tribe.
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These picayune squabbles got a way of turning deadly.
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Don't be picayune, if it will give the Emperor any happiness.
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May seem rather a picayune detail to you, but it's quite meaningful to me.
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May seem rather a picayune detail to you,but it's quite meaningful to me.
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But I don't care. I indulge her. I'm not picayune.
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