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Significados de picayune en inglés

(Informal) small and of little importance.

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