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  • adjective Affected by snow blindness; temporarily blinded by light reflected off snow.

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Examples

  • The New York Post referred to him yesterday as the "snowblind mayor," and many of his usual allies on the city council are promising to hold hearings on the fiasco.

    Snowblind in Gotham 2010

  • I went temporarily snowblind this morning, and boy, wasn't that fun.

    The unbearable whiteness of being Kat Howard 2010

  • I went temporarily snowblind this morning, and boy, wasn't that fun.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Kat Howard 2010

  • Jarvis is taking an unfortunate snowblind view of right vs. wrong, racist or not racist as if we are all filling in an application and checking boxes.

    You wouldn’t understand « BuzzMachine 2008

  • No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close. snowblind in the sun, i wishhhh

    snowblind in the sun, i wishhhh slowlywerot 2008

  • I am all for creativity, and encourage even more silly dancing, singing & outrageous sweaters for the delight of the snowbound &/or snowblind of any sort.

    Leslie Hall: the whitest woman in rap « raincoaster 2007

  • He had been here many times before, those late-October nights of open house, parents aimlessly wandering the halls, looking like lost and snowblind cattle among the garish drawings taped to glazed-brick walls the color of PeptoBismol.

    America's Report Card John McNally 2006

  • She had gotten snowblind, the spring before last when she didn't wear her Army goggles on the sled back from the Dog Die Mountains.

    Excerpt: Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner 2004

  • Citizens Leval, Vesak, and Zetha wore UV goggles to keep from going snowblind as they made their way on their short skis through an untouched alpine landscape beneath a cloudless lavender sky.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • Citizens Leval, Vesak, and Zetha wore UV goggles to keep from going snowblind as they made their way on their short skis through an untouched alpine landscape beneath a cloudless lavender sky.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

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