Anvilicious
adj, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Conveyed in a heavy-handed, unsubtle way; preachy. slang
"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."
Example
More 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."
Etymology
From anvil + -licious, the implication being that the message's delivery is as unsubtle as the dropping of an anvil on a person's head (a stock occurrence in cartoons).
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