picayune
Day 21Level 3pik-ee-YOON
insignificant
insignificant; of little value
Part of Speech: adjective
Synonyms:
trivial, frivolous, meager
Example Sentence:
Good humored writing is far too rare a commodity for anyone to be picayune about it.
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