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pi-kee-YOON
adjective, noun
something of little or no value; small or petty minded; a nit-picker
1903Brann The IconoclastAt a time when the industrial problem is pressing upon us with ever increasing power, it is discouraging to hear grown Americans prattling of 'unhorsing' economic adversaries—priding themselves on polemical fence, like shyster lawyers, and seeking victory through sophistry rather than truth by honest inquiry. That is not patriotism, but a picayune partisanship which I profoundly pity.1995Dead Man's WalkMany Rangers thought Bigfoot's point somewhat picayune, since the Mexican could not have screamed louder if he had been being tortured by fifty men…2001Foreign LegionsWe in the Trade Commission do not feel that our concerns are either picayune or asinine!Labels: David Drake, Larry McMurtry, William Cowper Brann
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