| 单词 | picayunishness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˌpicaˈyunishness ˌpicaˈyunishness n. pettiness, preoccupation with trivial matters. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > paltriness, meanness, or contempt miserableness1633 meannessa1656 narrowness1661 sorriness1668 paltriness1727 threadbareness1771 wretchedness1810 trumperiness1868 picayunishness1870 threadbarity1892 1870 Debates & Proc. Constit. Convent. Illinois I. 131/1 I am opposed to the picayunishness displayed by this Convention from the day of its first session. 1935 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 15 369 This is the pettiness, the picayunishness, the negligence, and the indifference of the French administrators of Haiti. 1994 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 17 July (Sports section) 2 c The Star Tribune sports department is exhibiting its pervasive Hartmanesque traits of parochialism, picayunishness and paranoia. < as lemmas |
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