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- adjective derogatory Supporting of
environment concerns such as combattingpollution ,deforestation , etc.
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Examples
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I know people will kill him as some tree-hugging left-wing activist.
Crist wants special session, amendment to ban offshore drilling 2010
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“… Avatar can mould you into some kind of crying, tree-hugging, man baby”
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The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.
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What's more, Hatch is an unabashed tree-hugging, parrano cheese-eating,Pitchfork-reading liberal who has alienated his party's base by opposing health care reform, gay rights and wall street overhaul.
HUFFPOST HILL - Your Friendly HuffPost Hill Union Busting Update Eliot Nelson 2011
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An alien planet of tree-hugging indigenous creatures is invaded by an armada of humans that seek to exploit the planet's natural resources, and only a single human and his relationship with a female alien can save the day.
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Those hemp-growing, tree-hugging, corporate-hating deistic free loving and free thinking present-at-the-creation Americans believed above all that the Truth would keep us free.
Harvey Wasserman: The Tea Party/GOP Would Hate Our Actual Founders Harvey Wasserman 2010
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She was, in her own words, the "typical tree-hugging granola-crunching liberal" and worked on Capitol Hill.
Editor's Query: Tell us about a time when a storm resulted in something surprising Post 2011
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Let all the wretched tree-hugging mammals tremble when they hear my name…Caroline SpelmanDear Ms SpelmanYou are suffering from an extreme case of repressed megalomania.
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Those hemp-growing, tree-hugging, corporate-hating deistic free loving and free thinking present-at-the-creation Americans believed above all that the Truth would keep us free.
Harvey Wasserman: The Tea Party/GOP Would Hate Our Actual Founders Harvey Wasserman 2010
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An alien planet of tree-hugging indigenous creatures is invaded by an armada of humans that seek to exploit the planet's natural resources, and only a single human and his relationship with a female alien can save the day.
Archive 2010-07-01 2010
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