tree-hugger
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of tree-hugger
First recorded in 1985–90
Example Sentences
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But it is the way these trees are grown that is just as interesting to a gardener and tree-hugger like me.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2017
Others dismiss Francis, who picked his papal name partly in homage to the nature-loving St. Francis of Assisi, as a tree-hugger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2015
A champion of poor immigrants, a critic of capitalism and a tree-hugger who has, meanwhile, done little to revise the church’s social teachings, Pope Francis has something for both camps.
From Economist ● Sep. 17, 2015
Though Lawrence’s door-to-door sorties against tree-hugger pieties seemed lonely and courageous to Mandy’s mother, what took place was a legal contest between a tiny township and a transnational corporation.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 25, 2011
Pastor Tri described himself as both a "tree-hugger and a social conservative".
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2009
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