Meaning of anvilicious | Babel Free

Definitions

Conveyed in a heavy-handed, unsubtle way; preachy.

slang

Examples

“When you take⟳ something as subtle, ballsy, and downright mythic as Dark Will and turn⟳ it into the anvilicious, ambitionless, and dreadfully banal travesty that was the Crack Magick arc, that's not a big hubristic dream⟳ that went wrong; that's the utter lack of a dream⟳, the complete⟳ failure of imagination.”

“'Anvilicious'? […] 'Of, or pertaining to, anvils,' is how I'd describe⟳ it. Remember⟳ in cartoons, when they get⟳ dropped on people from a height? It means when an idea is presented on the show⟳ with about that much subtlety […]”

“That was weak. As soon as the parents voiced their objection to seeing Cartman nude on stage⟳ I knew where they were heading... anvilicious.”

“They keep⟳ dropping they ^([sic]) anvilicious hints about it being JFK and Robert but the time period in which it is set⟳ is wrong.”

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