Cruel and Excessive

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Cruel adjective - Having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others.

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Excessive and cruel are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Excessive" instead an adjective "Cruel".

Nearby Words: cruelty, cruelly

Excessive adjective - Going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount.

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Cruel and excessive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cruel" instead an adjective "Excessive".

Nearby Words: excess, excessively

However if their method of kicking is rather excessive or cruel then they will be knocked down a few notches.

Source: Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness
The only area where Agon doesn't fit this trope's definition of jerkass perfectly is that he knows his behavior is inappropriate, excessive and/or cruel, and he's fine with that.

Source: Jerkass / Anime
Nothing they do ever strikes them as out of proportion; they never realize that anything they are doing might ever be considered inappropriate, excessive, or cruel; in fact, they believe they are actually right and everyone around them is in the wrong.

Source: Jerkass

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