[duggan]

I suppose "flowery" is open to interpretation, but generally I mean those occasions where it looks like someone is randomly choosing from a thesaurus for every other adverb.

Anyway, I don't think it's in any danger of disappearing – it's pervasive and popular – but I've never been able to complete a book with too much of it.

[jeegsy]

I mean it in the Dickensian sense