picayune

adjective

1. (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

Similar word(s): unimportant, fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, piddling, piffling, trivial

noun

1. (US, chiefly Louisiana, archaic) A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents; a fippenny bit.

2. (archaic) A five-cent piece.

3. Something of very little value; a trifle.

4. An argument, fact, corner case, or other issue raised (often intentionally) that distracts from a larger issue at hand or does not change a primary supposition, outcome, postulate, premise, conclusion, hypothesis, judgment or recommendation.