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PICAYUNE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

(informal) small and of little importance

Example:

giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction

Synonyms:

fiddling; footling; lilliputian; little; niggling; petty; picayune; piddling; piffling; trivial

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unimportant (not important)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

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