picayune
英 [ˌpɪkə'ju:n] 美 [ˌpɪkə'jun]

n.

西班牙小币，不值钱东西；

adj.

不值钱的，无聊的；

英英释义

picayune[ ,pikə'ju:n ]

• adj.(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"

  同义词：fiddlingfootlinglilliputianlittlenigglingpiddlingpifflingpettytrivial

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