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"Picayune Butler's coming, coming" has upset my nervous system.
A CONFEDERATE GIRL'S DIARYSARAH MARGAN DAWSONSee here, old woman, if youve got some little picayune payment to make, make it and clear out.
THREE LITTLE WOMENGABRIELLE E. JACKSONThey smile a grim smile in their grizzled beards at the fuss which has been made over this "picayune war," as they call it.
AMERICA TO-DAY, OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONSWILLIAM ARCHERNow this Lane proposition is a little bit of a thing; it's picayune; I should live right along if I didn't get it.
THE RISE OF ROSCOE PAINEJOSEPH C. LINCOLNI should not be surprised to see him supersede Picayune Butler.
MISS RAVENEL'S CONVERSION FROM SECESSION TO LOYALTYJ. W. DE FORESTAnd none of it was worth a picayune to him, except negatively.
THE CURVED BLADESCAROLYN WELLSThe two assistant superintendents gained courage; they went to the picayune business of pulling wires.
THE MODERN RAILROADEDWARD HUNGERFORDWe asked him by signs where he came from, and he pointed to a rakish lugger rocking at the Picayune pier.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN, VOLUME 1ELIZABETH BISLANDGentleman whos owned a plantation that you could stick this hyeh picayune town into one coneh of!
SHORT SIXESH. C. BUNNERReporter on the New Orleans Picayune and accountant with a firm of cotton factors, 1865-79.
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATUREJOHN MATTHEWS MANLY AND EDITH RICKERTWORDS RELATED TO PICAYUNE
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- big zero
- casual
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- entry level
- exiguous
- immaterial
- inadequate
- inappreciable
- inconsequent
- inconsiderable
- insignificant
- insufficient
- light
- little
- measly
- minor
- negligible
- no biggie
- paltry
- petty
- picayune
- puny
- runt
- scanty
- shoestring
- shrimp
- skimpy
- small
- small potatoes
- small-time
- trifling
- trivial
- two bit
- unconsidered
- unimportant
- wimpy
- worthless
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.