picayune - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'picayune' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Picayune

[ n.]

- A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.

1 . picayune

[ s]

Meaning (1):
- (informal) small and of little importance

Example in sentence:

a dispute over niggling details;
a fiddling sum of money;
a footling gesture;
a little (or small) matter;
giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction;
limited to petty enterprises;
our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war;
piffling efforts

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