picayunish

adjective

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as in picayune

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  1. picayune
  2. unimportant
  3. piddling
  4. petty
  5. puny
  6. trivial
  7. nominal
  8. negligible
Adjective
  • At this point you may be exhausted by the exploration of picayune facts.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2012
  • But only a fool would harp on picayune flaws when this rich material is being served with such musical polish and sensitivity.
    Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
Definition of picayune
Adjective
  • So, the ick is often our internal defense mechanism, working overtime to protect us from potential heartache, leading us to unconsciously push away great potential partners by focusing on unimportant qualities.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Appearance is unimportant and, apparently, so are some of the themes.
    Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of unimportant
Adjective
  • Then, the pandemic reduced the schedule to 60 games and Eddie got a piddling 37%.
    Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Millions of additional claims are expected to stream in from around the country over the coming weeks, while hiring remains piddling.
    Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
Definition of piddling
Adjective
  • But the smoke is still rising, and petty partisanship is a distraction and disservice at the moment, given all that’s been lost, and all the hard work of moving forward.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • In an era of steadily declining trust in media, the dry formalities of a legal template provide not only an imprimatur of institutional credibility, but also the freedom to go into extreme amounts of detail without seeming petty, tedious or self-indulgent.
    Eleanor Hawkins, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of petty
Adjective
  • This time, the rearrangement looks far more radical than the puny size of Gaza might have suggested.
    Max Rodenbeck, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Taken together with the bones, however—and with some help from modern technology—these earthen imprints give a holistic picture of the prehistoric creatures that sashayed along in their heyday, oblivious to the puny mammals of the future who would gawk at their footprints millions of years later.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of puny
Adjective
  • Any defection over the most trivial procedural or legislative matters could block the party's agenda.
    G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • For investors, this means that meaningful financial updates from companies will be accompanied by mountains of trivial environmental data.
    Stone Washington, National Review, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of trivial
Adjective
  • While some of the nominees fall far afield from the norms—Hegseth, Gabbard, and RFK Jr. are the marquee names in that cohort, for sure—the bulk will face only nominal opposition from Democrats.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Of course, all the good deeds in the world can’t buy your way into heaven, but as a nominal Catholic, Biden may have been persuaded by the Pope to commute the sentences.
    Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of nominal
Adjective
  • Advertisement In all three of those areas, faults in the days leading up to the fires were negligible, with only a few occurring.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • His book value is now negligible, meaning any prospective fee would represent pure profit.
    James Horncastle, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of negligible
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