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- adjective slang, neologism
Conveyed in aheavy-handed ,unsubtle way;preachy .
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Examples
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The first three books were still awesome though, but the fourth and fifth are very anvilicious about the environment and stuff.
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As they say over on TV Tropes, the point is anvilicious: the mother, the media, and the audience joyfully collude in turning a child into a thing, a marketable object with a literal price tag.
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As they say over on TV Tropes, the point is anvilicious: the mother, the media, and the audience joyfully collude in turning a child into a thing, a marketable object with a literal price tag.
My Sister, My Love 2009
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I know it was a bit anvilicious making Bones and Booth all domestic and parent-like, but I don't mind anvils as much as some others do.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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I know it was a bit anvilicious making Bones and Booth all domestic and parent-like, but I don't mind anvils as much as some others do.
Bones is back! 2008
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November 14, 2008 @ 3:52 am anyone else think escapeartist stories have been getting far more anvilicious lately?
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Yeah, it's a bit anvilicious at times and the Western motifs are a bit jarring and downright nonsensical at times I mean, how does a heavily Asian-influenced frontier culture start talking like John Wayne, anyway?
Serenity 2005
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Yeah, it's a bit anvilicious at times and the Western motifs are a bit jarring and downright nonsensical at times I mean, how does a heavily Asian-influenced frontier culture start talking like John Wayne, anyway?
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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The short isn’t perfect by any means — it’s a little corny, and there are, among other things, some truly anvilicious moments of ironic foreshadowing — but by and large it nails the format, making good use of the graphics novel’s huge scope in the process.
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I stopped watching South Park after they started getting increasingly anvilicious and impenetrable unless you’re interested enough to peel away some of the layers of cultural self-congratulation and narcissism.
Cheeseburger Gothic » I dips me lid to Lord Bob of Nowhere. 2010
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