picayune 的 2 个定义
Also pic·a·yun·ish. Informal.
- of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- petty, carping, or prejudiced: I didn't want to seem picayune by criticizing.
- a coin equal to half a Spanish real.
- any small coin, as a five-cent piece.
- Informal. an insignificant person or thing.
picayune 近义词
trivial
更多picayune例句
- He elaborated on the wellsprings of the tradition in an interview with me in 1989 for a Times-Picayune article.
- In addition to the Star-Ledger, Advance Publications owns, among other things, The Times-Picayune in New Orleans.
- The administration enthusiastically traded winning the future for a picayune present gain.
- To see just how picayune the debate got, take a look at the opinions.
- Then came the unspeakable moment just a few months ago when I came across an obscure item in The Times-Picayune.
- "Picayune Butler's coming, coming" has upset my nervous system.
- See here, old woman, if youve got some little picayune payment to make, make it and clear out.
- They smile a grim smile in their grizzled beards at the fuss which has been made over this "picayune war," as they call it.
- Now this Lane proposition is a little bit of a thing; it's picayune; I should live right along if I didn't get it.
- I should not be surprised to see him supersede Picayune Butler.