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Значения термина picayune на английском
(Informal) small and of little importance.
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Examples for "little"
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Europe is a different competition and little errors can change the game.
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The case poses little if any threat to human health, officials said.
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And some believe market actually picked up a little bit last year.
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The group also had little time for talk of the euro crisis.
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The government has so far given away little detail of its plans.
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Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett said the group were playing petty politics.
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Which was true, of course, and petty of me to bring up.
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I don't have time to resolve these petty family squabbles right now.
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Oppression, daily petty harassment and humiliation are the breeding ground for violence.
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The provost, however, had never wasted his time with such petty artifice.
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Consumers are 'overwhelmed with relatively trivial choices' says a professor of psychology.
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Did he think her family morally trivial for keeping a clean house?
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Changes to the Constitution are not done for trivial or transient reasons.
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I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and inference.
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There's a tendency to attribute far too much importance to trivial developments.
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Guess that means I can finally start fiddling with your financial records.
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I may have helped it freeze by fiddling with certain environmental controls.
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He was fiddling with the carriage release, exasperated, tugging at the paper.
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But once you start fiddling with the facts, it's hard to stop.
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Rupert bristled at the order, but he began fiddling with a console.
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Everything from diet to niggling little health problems could be causing problems.
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I need it ASAP. The U.S. case had left a niggling fear.
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Unfortunately, the beauty of the concept is marred by two niggling problems.
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But no matter how much sense I made, the niggling had started.
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Yet there was something niggling about Elder's demeanor, a small discordant something.
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He felt himself bound and pricked by a thousand delicate lilliputian bonds.
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This is a pity, as their lilliputian self-assertion is most amusing.
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In the middle of the lilliputian ranks the giant smoke-clouds leap like hellish gods.
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This kite system is like fitting a gigantic sail to a lilliputian boat, d'ye see?
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The lilliputian vehicles are ubiquitous in Japan - and they would be here, if Detroit had any sense.
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Humanity was far too obsessed with numerous piddling things of no interest.
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A piddling string of munition factories in New York and New Jersey.
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She was sitting at a table, piddling with a deck of cards.
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All they've got usually is piddling little Morris Eights or Austin Sevens.
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You're highly unlikely to do time, especially given your piddling payouts.
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Inland & Armco, two relatively piffling corporations had not yet boosted prices.
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I've got out of dead-and-alive Wolvercote at last-stupidCouncillors and piffling necromancers!
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The Taoiseach and Mr Molloy see it as a piffling matter.
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Don't be an old maid, Ern, with your piffling German conscientiousness.
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The poor Central Bank of Ireland only holds a piffling $90 million.
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She felt it was a footling question even as she asked it.
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I'm not such an ass as to fall off a footling balcony.
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Despite Lhel's efforts, the second child came wrong way around, a footling breach.
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For these two years, therefore, C na T has spent its time footling.
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Fidgeting, footling, while a companion looked on, and occasionally shifted position.
Использование термина picayune на английском
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That is not patriotism, but a picayune partisanship which I profoundly pity.
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You kant show the poor man he's ever took a picayune from.
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No, sir, it's hot your picayune drop o' spirits that's talkin'-it'sme.
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He had no reason to think that Cissie cared a picayune about him.
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Then tossing her a picayune, he said, take that, Aunt Dilsey.
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I wouldn't give a picayune to own one of those castles, back there.
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Why should he bother about petty, picayune minds which could not understand this?
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Unless there are heirs she shall have every picayune of it!
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And all because you were so obstinate about your picayune Library!
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Ay, ay, and not one picayune of duty did we pay!
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His duties at the trust company began to seem picayune.
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She's mighty much upset about Isabel Souders, didn't care a picayune about Martin Landis.
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The reasons people kill other people are almost endless, sometimes picayune, and often ridiculous.
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But look at the picayune amounts: $200 a month at most.
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I'll bet a picayune it's just a girl's scare.
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I'd like a fighting career well enough, but not picayune affairs out in India or Africa.
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