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Let's not get distracted by picayune matters.picayune = trivial (small or unimportant)
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His picayune attitude made group projects difficult—he criticized everything, no matter how small.picayune = petty
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Don’t worry about picayune details. Let's focus on the main idea.
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Before, it had seemed picayune to get all bent out of shape organizing the household chores. (source)picayune = petty (to focus on unimportant things)
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"Package of Picayunes, please," I said in response to her blank look.† (source)
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Finally, in April of 2007, Kathy wrote a letter to the Times-Picayune detailing the saga of the trailer.† (source)
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Was your company also sued last month by a New Orleans bank known as Picayune Trust for $2.6 million?† (source)
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But this is picayunish, and we no longer have time for that.† (source)picayunish = tending to be petty or of little importance
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The New Orleans Times Picayune ran a large derisive front-page story with a thick black headline: TAPPANISM!† (source)
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And the New Orleans Picayune hailed Webster for "the moral courage to do what he believes to be just in itself and necessary for the peace and safety of the country."† (source)
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he still, even though dead in the earth, that same fine figure of a man that Wash Jones called him, but not now Now fogbound by his own private embattlement of personal morality: that picayune splitting of abstract hairs while (Grandfather said) Rome vanished and Jericho crumbled, that this would be right if or that would be wrong but of slowing blood and stiffening bones and arteries that Father says men resort to in senility who while young and supple and strong reacted to a single simple Yes and a single simple No as instantaneous and complete and unthinking as the snapping on and off of electricity, sitting there and talking and now Grandfather not knowing what he was talking about beca† (source)
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If he was not pleased he could get work at any time on the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Louisville Courier Journal, the Atlanta Constitution, the Knoxville Sentinel, the Norfolk Pilot.† (source)
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Just one thing—I don't ask you to think of your family or friends, because I know they don't count a picayune with you beside your sense of duty—but, Burne, how do you know that the magazines you read and the societies you join and these idealists you meet aren't just plain German?† (source)
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"There's a picayune for you to buy candy with, Dodo," said Henrique; "go get some."† (source)
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A writer in the "New Orleans Picayune," in a careful historical paper, explained at length that I had been mistaken all the way through, that Philip Nolan never went to sea, but to Texas.† (source)
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I give him a picayune, now and then; and you see he dresses well.† (source)
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