picayune
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Sadly, the circumstances of our birth also sentenced us to put up with picayune, ornery, solipsistic types like him.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
In the Ackman-verse, where the Pershing Square Capital founder has bet billions of dollars on and against companies including Hilton and Google parent Alphabet, the focus of his social media takedown might appear downright picayune.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Some of the improvements Caplan counsels can seem picayune, such as insulating on-site work trailers, reducing idling, encouraging construction workers to use transit, and swapping out containers for open-bed shipping.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2021
The NFL’s picayune rule book is difficult enough to enforce without an inherently arbitrary judgment on what happens after a play.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2021
To an outsider, this torrent of picayune detail about the financial markets would have been disorienting.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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