The administration enthusiastically traded winning the future for a picayune present gain.
To see just how picayune the debate got, take a look at the opinions.
But his evaluation admitted that portions at the restaurant were “picayune, and desserts are something of a question mark.”
I give him a picayune, now and then; and you see he dresses well.
If we were only there, our chances wouldn't be worth a picayune.
I shall not proceed with the play for that picayune sum before me.
This mystified me, but to object to the tent, of course, would have been picayune.
They ride like the devil, fight like the devil, but don't care a picayune for anything.
She wrote much for the picayune and wrote herself into love as well as fame.
"picayune Butler's coming, coming" has upset my nervous system.
1804, "coin of small value," probably from Louisiana French picaillon "coin worth 5 cents," earlier the French name of an old copper coin of Savoy (1750), from Provençal picaioun "small copper coin," from picaio "money," of uncertain origin. Adjectival figurative sense of "paltry, mean" recorded from 1813.
