Use of the word picayune in a sentence example

picayune

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I'd like a fighting career well enough, but not picayune affairs out in India or Africa. [Please select]

Flint had ingeniously contrived almost to make the act, in Austen's eyes, that of a picayune upstart. [Please select]

"I bet a picayune you are my new brother, Robert," she said. [Please select]

Fortunately, however, he left his papers and maps, which fell into the hands of a friend of the Picayune's correspondent. [Please select]

"_Oh_," she cried aloud, impatiently, contemptuous of herself, "what picayune creatures human beings are." [Please select]

They ride like the devil, fight like the devil, but don't care a picayune for anything. [Please select]

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