Crossword-Solution: PICAYUNE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Picayune | n. | A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “PICAYUNE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Too small for notice. | 1 answer |
| Of little account. | 3 answers |
| VALUELESS thing | 6 answers |
| INSIGNIFICANT thing | 9 answers |
| Niggling | 9 answers |
| Insignificant person | 16 answers |
| Piddling | 20 answers |
| Inconsequential | 32 answers |
| Petty | 55 answers |
| Paltry | 73 answers |
| Trivial | 90 answers |
| Trifling | 96 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PICAYUNE (5)
Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.
Why should he bother about petty, picayune minds which could not understand this? He went over his history for Steger and the jury, and put the sanest, most comfortable light on it that he could.
Wot's he ever done that's underhanded or mean? Nothin'! You kant show the poor man he's ever took a picayune from.
Lincoln, suddenly slapping Marshal Lamon on the knee, exclaimed: ‘Come, Lamon, give us that song about “Picayune Butler”; McClellan has never heard it.’ “‘Not now, if you please,’ said General McClellan, with a shudder; ‘I would prefer to hear it some other place and time.’” President Lincoln refused to pay any attention to the story, would not read the comments made upon it by the newspapers, and would permit neither denial nor explanation to be made.
You are impoverishing this bar by your picayune charges of fees, and the lawyers have reason to complain of you.
Quotes with PICAYUNE (3)
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable … If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.
Saturday, September 17, 2005: Today in New Orleans, a traffic light worked. Someone watered flowers. And anyone with the means to get online could have heard Dr. Joy’s voice wafting in the dry wind, a sound of grace, comfort and familiarity here in the saddest and loneliest place in the world.” Chris Rose, The Times-Picayune
The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1955–2018).