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Definition of tree-hugger in English: tree-huggernountriː ˈhʌɡəˈtriˌhəɡər derogatory, informal An environmental campaigner (used in reference to the practice of embracing a tree in an attempt to prevent it from being felled) I was apprehensive about near encounters with earnest, granola-crunching tree-huggers Example sentencesExamples - I am what one might term a tree-hugger or an enviro-nut; therefore, I reacted with shock to the lack of conservatory measures, and purchased a sandwich (the item that I could find with the least amount of waste).
- Market conservatives tend to see environmentalists as either frivolous tree-huggers or dangerous monkey-wrenching eco-terrorists.
- From supercilious civil servants to sandal-wearing tree-huggers - they all have their say on everything from training programmes to which detergent is used in the staff toilets.
- According to one member of Medicine Hat's economic department advisory committee, the only folks bothered by the proposal are a handful of ‘pseudo tree-huggers.’
- Now the tree-huggers love targeting the forestry countries but many farmers are the real environmental vandals of the bush with land-clearing and unsustainable farming practices.
- But not even a tree-hugger would seriously suggest that the tree does this deliberately.
- Few golf-course superintendents will ever be certified tree-huggers (shade trees, after all, can be a problem for sun-loving turf), but that doesn't mean they aren't eco-friendly.
- Still, their pastorals embrace much more than the average tree-hugger does.
- The tree-huggers and arboriphobes on my staff divided exactly by age, as though Kilmer's poetic chestnut had been a birthright accorded only to those born before, say, 1968.
- She walked out to the front yard to pick up a piece of litter, being the environment-friendly tree-hugger that everyone had come to love, and than stopped dead when she looked up and saw the driveway.
- So, there you are: those of us who thought that the one sentiment we had in common with bobble-hatted tree-huggers was love of the rural landscape are disabused.
- After all, parents who prefer a liberal education are elitist, perhaps even racist or sexist, and parents who prefer a progressive education are woolly minded tree-huggers.
- Attention tree-huggers: you were right all along.
- As a measure of character, also consider how the man who aspires to lead the Free World finessed the problem of appeasing tree-huggers while avoiding offence to countrymen whom the accords would have thrown out of work.
- Funding environmental projects isn't just a luxury that makes tree-huggers happy.
- Environmentalism isn't ultimately about hugging trees (although there are surely some responsible tree-huggers out there): it is about what happens to the human body, in this or future generations.
- My objections are not the usual huge-corporate-malls-are-soulless rants, or the cars-destroy-the-environment bleats you usually get from the tree-huggers.
- The hardcore no-logos complain about short-sighted summit hoppers, while some of the older, break-no-bones tree-huggers plead for an end to illegal and violent protests.
- The warriors of Hong Kong's new radicalism, however, are not always as benign as noisy students, dedicated tree-huggers and pinstripe-suited politicians.
- This story of a placer miner ditched by his girl-friend for a hippie tree-hugger, and the resulting attempts at reconciliation absolutely won the audience over.
Synonyms conservationist, preservationist, ecologist, green, nature-lover, eco-activist
Derivatives noun derogatory, informal Anyone can find fault in the fictional tree-hugging, hemp-shirt wearing, fair-trade-latte - drinking, bongo-hitting hippie that you portray as a leftist, or tear apart the ridiculous arguments he seems to think come from the left. Example sentencesExamples - Next those hippy tree-hugging communist civil libertarians will be objecting to our new ‘deporting political opponents’ policy.
- Sure, many years later I would realize that the song was nothing but a paean to tree-hugging; a musical, Orwellian trip into a vast dystopian future.
- And what happens is that it either degenerates into some form of self-indulgent ego-tripping or it loses itself in tree-hugging or some such specious nonsense.
- When, as tree-hugging, deep-breathing, cardboard-recycling eco-liberals, we began to envision the type of home we'd build, our first instinct was to not cut down a single tree.
Definition of tree-hugger in US English: tree-huggernounˈtriˌhəɡərˈtrēˌhəɡər derogatory, informal An environmental campaigner (used in reference to the practice of embracing a tree in an attempt to prevent it from being felled) I was apprehensive about near encounters with earnest, granola-crunching tree-huggers Example sentencesExamples - So, there you are: those of us who thought that the one sentiment we had in common with bobble-hatted tree-huggers was love of the rural landscape are disabused.
- Now the tree-huggers love targeting the forestry countries but many farmers are the real environmental vandals of the bush with land-clearing and unsustainable farming practices.
- After all, parents who prefer a liberal education are elitist, perhaps even racist or sexist, and parents who prefer a progressive education are woolly minded tree-huggers.
- I am what one might term a tree-hugger or an enviro-nut; therefore, I reacted with shock to the lack of conservatory measures, and purchased a sandwich (the item that I could find with the least amount of waste).
- My objections are not the usual huge-corporate-malls-are-soulless rants, or the cars-destroy-the-environment bleats you usually get from the tree-huggers.
- But not even a tree-hugger would seriously suggest that the tree does this deliberately.
- She walked out to the front yard to pick up a piece of litter, being the environment-friendly tree-hugger that everyone had come to love, and than stopped dead when she looked up and saw the driveway.
- The tree-huggers and arboriphobes on my staff divided exactly by age, as though Kilmer's poetic chestnut had been a birthright accorded only to those born before, say, 1968.
- Few golf-course superintendents will ever be certified tree-huggers (shade trees, after all, can be a problem for sun-loving turf), but that doesn't mean they aren't eco-friendly.
- The hardcore no-logos complain about short-sighted summit hoppers, while some of the older, break-no-bones tree-huggers plead for an end to illegal and violent protests.
- This story of a placer miner ditched by his girl-friend for a hippie tree-hugger, and the resulting attempts at reconciliation absolutely won the audience over.
- From supercilious civil servants to sandal-wearing tree-huggers - they all have their say on everything from training programmes to which detergent is used in the staff toilets.
- Attention tree-huggers: you were right all along.
- Still, their pastorals embrace much more than the average tree-hugger does.
- According to one member of Medicine Hat's economic department advisory committee, the only folks bothered by the proposal are a handful of ‘pseudo tree-huggers.’
- Funding environmental projects isn't just a luxury that makes tree-huggers happy.
- The warriors of Hong Kong's new radicalism, however, are not always as benign as noisy students, dedicated tree-huggers and pinstripe-suited politicians.
- As a measure of character, also consider how the man who aspires to lead the Free World finessed the problem of appeasing tree-huggers while avoiding offence to countrymen whom the accords would have thrown out of work.
- Market conservatives tend to see environmentalists as either frivolous tree-huggers or dangerous monkey-wrenching eco-terrorists.
- Environmentalism isn't ultimately about hugging trees (although there are surely some responsible tree-huggers out there): it is about what happens to the human body, in this or future generations.
Synonyms conservationist, preservationist, ecologist, green, nature-lover, eco-activist
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