picayunishness
- a word derived from picayune.
Example Sentences
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This is against manhood and is a ruinous policy, because it tends to picayunishness and chicanery.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham