picayune
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“By the third date,” he recalls, “the musicians started getting on each other’s nerves. By the fifth date, there were picayunish arguments like ‘Who drank my Gatorade from the refrigerator?’
From Washington Times • Jul. 15, 2015
I will not have our agencies following the course of least resistance and wasting their time upon pitiful, picayunish, non-commercial cases.
From Time Magazine Archive
Urging both sides to avoid recriminations and "picayunish" quarrels, he said: "There are many eyes here, and motes can be readily found in them."
From Time Magazine Archive
That plan had pleased no one�least of all President Johnson, who two weeks ago blasted Detroit for its "picayunish" objections to the Administration's highway-safety bill.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a shame that Devore kept him skittering round on little picayunish jobs—running errands, that was really what it was.
From The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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