'picayune' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means something of little value or importance, trivial, or petty. You can use it in situations where you want to convey a sense of something being insignificant or small in comparison to other things. For example: - "I don't want to waste my time on such picayune matters when there are bigger issues at hand." - "Don't worry about the picayune details, just focus on the main idea." - "The politician's argument was filled with picayune criticisms instead of addressing the real concerns of the community."
They were pedestrian, even picayune: he solicited bribes.
For runners, the last week is usually a time of planning and picayune neurosis: the exact timing when gu should be ingested; the slight pang in the foot that must be incipient plantar fasciitis.
Most of the sins were picayune, but a few were on a big scale; one man was sent to the penitentiary for killing his brother, and there were a couple of young ranchers who traded wives.
The brain, circling in the cell of wakefulness, panics at the poverty of its domain — these worn-out obsessions, these threadbare word games, these pointless grievances, these picayune plans for tomorrow which yet loom, hours from execution, as unbearably momentous.
In the late sixties, night clubs in northern England began hosting dance parties where enterprising disc jockeys spun obscure, fast-tempo soul records — limited-run, picayune forty-five-r.p.m. singles issued by regional labels like Golden World, Ric-Tic, Magic City, and Shout.
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Through a process of gradual consolidation, New Orleans now has only one major daily, the Times-Picayune.
Tulane University's president, Mike Fitts, issued a statement identifying Gold as a fourth-year medical student, according to the Times-Picayune.
As Gold raised his arms in surrender, his back facing a brick wall, the man pointed the gun at Gold's head and demanded money, according to the Times-Picayune.
"That is the silver lining in this whole disaster," a prominent local architect named Ray Manning told the Times-Picayune.
Simon hired the writers Tom Piazza, the author of the 2005 book "Why New Orleans Matters," and Lolis Eric Elie, a former Times-Picayune columnist (and the writer and co-director of a film called "Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans").
