wintriest
- superlative of wintry.
Example Sentences
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Wallace Stevens is the wintriest character in American poetry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The set was the wintriest I can ever recall seeing, piled with drifts of artificial snow.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2016
His rugged frame, accustomed to all weathers, hardened by years of sleeping beside wide-opened windows in the wintriest of seasons, was always healthily glowing with warmth when others were frankly freezing.
From Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)
But, there! he's gone! and I gaze on The wintriest of weather!
From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Nye, Bill
In every forehead now I see a sky Catching the dawn; I hear the wintriest breeze About me blow the news the Lord is nigh.
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George