picayune

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The next-largest categories, and we think the most concerning, encompass election administration and absentee voting – often challenging mechanical, even picayune matters.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2022

It seems clear that the NFL’s intent is to be picayune in its enforcement at the beginning of the year in the hope that players will be “scared straight.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2021

These rules may seem picayune, but frequent fliers take them seriously.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2018

In 2013, as a novice math teacher at Callaghan Elementary in rural Covington, Virginia, Liptrap was plagued by student requests to sharpen pencils, use the bathroom, and other picayune interruptions.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2016

To an outsider, this torrent of picayune detail about the financial markets would have been disorienting.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis