anvilicious

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Meaning · English

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

Register: slang

Where it’s used: Used American English

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 imagin

Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)

Sources & notes

Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).

Common questions

What does “anvilicious” mean?

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

Is “anvilicious” formal or informal?

anvilicious is generally slang.