You are impoverishing this bar by your picayune charges of fees, and the lawyers have reason to complain of you.
Mr. Lincoln did not ask me to sing "Picayune Butler.
I don't care a picayune if you don't ever win a case!
As the ladies drew up behind the throng and across the throat of Commercial Alley the dire List began to flutter from the Picayune office in greedy palms and over and among dishevelled heads like a feeding swarm of white pigeons.
Now the Des Moines is a picayune stream, unduly dignified by the appellation of "river.
All that I had done was to walk along their sidewalk and gaze at their picayune waterfall.
Here's thePicayune [producing paper] with the advertisement.
I Hope not; many a picayune he picked up for his dance and nigger-songs, and he supplied our table with fish and game from the Bayous.
What, Picayune Paul, as we called, him, that used to come aboard my boat?
Moreover, Mr. Flint had ingeniously contrived almost to make the act, in Austen's eyes, that of a picayune upstart.
I guess I won't waste my time with any picayune boss if the United Northeastern Railroads has any hand in this matter," declared Mr. Crewe.
They ride like the devil, fight like the devil, but don't care a picayune for anything.
I don't care a picayune what he thinks," replied Rodney, his excitement increasing as the Governor's carriage began to circle around toward the front and center of the company.
I'll bet a picayune that if this company sees any service at all, it will not be mustered out with the same officers it has now.
I at once recognized this friendly paragraph as the one which had had its kindness extracted, and been abbreviated and twisted into that cruel taunt which I had heard in my childhood from the lips of "Picayune Butler.
Frowenfeld, naturally, was not anxious to reply, and was greatly relieved to be touched on the elbow by a child with a picayune in one hand and a tumbler in the other.
The last picayune we have in the world--ha, ha, ha!
Not a ninepence to be got for a servant; not a picayune for a beggar; not a ten cent piece for the post-office.
I bet a picayune you are my new brother, Robert," she said.
The entry read, "Committed as a suspicious character, and for holding communication with Picayune Butler's troops.
Must spend one picayune for one cheap dinner, or else must have one cheap coffin made for me at the expense of the corporation!
A picayune a day is a mere trifle; I save for him what I might otherwise spend in selfish indulgence.
And if you'll quit your place and take mine you'll get your coup de grâce in some picayune Indian fight and be forgotten.
By twelve o'clock my work for the day was finished; and I returned to the lodging-house with a dollar in picayune pieces--having made a hundred per cent on my capital.
On turning down a wide street, I met three gentlemen, each of whom took a copy out of my hands and gave me a picayune in return.
I should not be surprised to see him supersede Picayune Butler.
I hear him so constantly called Picayune that I feel as if that was his name of baptism.
My dear, I never invested a picayunein my life," he said.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picayune" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
