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1. (informal) small and of little importance
   "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction";
   - fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, trivial, piddly

1. Something of small importance
   - triviality, trivia, trifle, small beer, small fry, piddler
    
2. An insignificant person
   - pissant [N. Amer]

Derived forms: picayunes

See also: unimportant

Type of: article, object, physical object

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