(Informal) small and of little importance.
1
That is not patriotism, but a picayune partisanship which I profoundly pity.
2
You kant show the poor man he's ever took a picayune from.
3
No, sir, it's hot your picayune drop o' spirits that's talkin'-it'sme.
4
He had no reason to think that Cissie cared a picayune about him.
5
Then tossing her a picayune, he said, take that, Aunt Dilsey.
6
I wouldn't give a picayune to own one of those castles, back there.
7
Why should he bother about petty, picayune minds which could not understand this?
8
Unless there are heirs she shall have every picayune of it!
9
And all because you were so obstinate about your picayune Library!
10
Ay, ay, and not one picayune of duty did we pay!
11
His duties at the trust company began to seem picayune.
12
She's mighty much upset about Isabel Souders, didn't care a picayune about Martin Landis.
13
The reasons people kill other people are almost endless, sometimes picayune, and often ridiculous.
14
But look at the picayune amounts: $200 a month at most.
15
I'll bet a picayune it's just a girl's scare.
16
I'd like a fighting career well enough, but not picayune affairs out in India or Africa.