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How to use picayune in a sentence

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While still agonizing over this traumatic separation, he is approached by a white man who offers him a picayune.
Governments now claim to have a mandate for a battery of items in the manifesto, however picayune each may be.
The exercise of judicial discretion in a case such as the present may seem at first blush a picayune matter.
You may have noticed I generally stay away from picayune liturgical controversies.
Cogitating, considering, and contemplating about the grand scheme of things not to mention picayune matters is cheap.
I don't suppose many alpinists would have committed such a picayune ascent to paper, but I found the exercise useful.
Yet beside these we find other sources suggesting that it is not appropriate to be too picayune.
In short, save for the picayune fact he had no bus-driving credentials, he was the perfect bus driver.
Having fewer picayune regulations might lead coaches to commit more strongly to those that matter.
The cyclist behind me lands the jump but slams on his brakes and skids to a stop next to my picayune wreck.
This is not a picayune instance but, in my experience, the industry norm.
From all accounts, they are motivated solely by the desire to protect the Dear Leader from any picayune criticism of his divinely inspired policies.
The administration enthusiastically traded winning the future for a picayune present gain.
Don't think this was a picayune issue with no larger consequences.
The elevation of picayune particulars should not be allowed at the expense of fruitful talk about ideas and plans.
If it is determined that new rules need to be written, they must not be picayune regulations that simply give the unscrupulous a roadmap to evade the spirit of the rules.
To see just how picayune the debate got, take a look at the opinions.
He had eased more than half of himself into my office by then, and though the dispute between Feather and Conn struck me at that moment as a vain and picayune business, I could hardly turn him away.
Indeed, viewed from afar, from the point of view of a stranger, our so-called quarrels, our so-called bickerings and debates, our verbal battles every day seem so picayune, so futile, so small.
The fact is that this is a picayune document that is intended to go after or imperil and penalize those in my party who have chosen, bravely, to run for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada.
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This mystified me, but to object to the tent, of course, would have been picayune.
They ride like the devil, fight like the devil, but don't care a picayune for anything.
She wrote much for the picayune and wrote herself into love as well as fame.
If we were only there, our chances wouldn't be worth a picayune.
I shall not proceed with the play for that picayune sum before me.
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