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• s  (informal) small and of little importance
  giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction

• His strength as a leader made his other failings seem picayune.
• Every time a straight-news journalist alters a fact even something as picayune as the color of a bomb blast it convinces people that the media must lie about big things as .
• Americans, who have just endured the endless 2004 presidential campaign in which no detail about the candidates was too picayune to get saturation coverage, would find little that .

• fiddling
• footling
• lilliputian
• little
• niggling
• piddling
• piffling
• petty
• trivial

News & Articles

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• Picayune schoolboard discusses budget
  Picayune School District Finance Director Lisa Penton gave a PowerPoint presentation on Tuesday detailing the district’s proposed 2013-14 budget and compared it to years’ past.
  June 12, 2013 - The Picayune Item
• Lawyer, volunteer activist Mark Surprenant receives The Times-Picayune Loving Cup
  Surrounded by applauding friends, family members, fellow lawyers and people he has known through decades of community service, Mark Surprenant on Tuesday was presented The Times-Picayune Loving Cup for 2012. The cup has been awarded since 1901 to people for...
  June 12, 2013 - New Orleans Times-Picayune
• Picayune Police Department hosts summer camp
  The Picayune Police Department’s Summer Youth Camp for 7-9 year olds came to an end Friday with a barbecue.
  June 8, 2013 - The Picayune Item

Quotes

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• Ron Wilson in Globe and Mail
  They might be picayune penalties to some people, but we don't need them,Wilson said. "They really hurt us. We have to play with the simple, short passes every night."
• Gene Taylor in The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
  If the Times-Picayune can find this out, I believe the Department of Homeland Security ought to be able to find this,said Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss.
• Bill DeWeese in Centre Daily Times
  I'm certainly not going to be childish or picayune in my behavior, but we will certainly focus the light of the sun upon my honorable colleague's Alamo-like stance,said DeWeese, accusing Perzel of "barricading himself into that office."