picayune

Example Sentences

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A huge part of Google’s attention remains occupied by the picayune needs of current and former Office users and can enforce a kind of slow, linear progression in the product roadmap.

From The Verge

The broken window theory has led to picayune and arbitrary law enforcement in poor communities.

From Salon

They made it harder for the Navajo: County clerks refused to register them, knocked Native candidates off the ballot for made-up or picayune reasons, and printed ballots only in English.

From Salon

One day it’s small-business people who are absolutely wiped out, the next day it’s the picayune annoyances of couples working side-by-side in their homes on laptops.

From Washington Post

Members fail to do their homework, and embarrass us with their picayune questions.

From The Verge