Excessive
Excessive adjective - Going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount.
Harsh and excessive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Harsh" instead an adjective "Excessive".
Nearby Words: excess, excessively
Both words in one sentence
- And on the flip side of the coin, he tried to make the Black Speech as ugly as possible — lots of harsh consonant clusters, excessive use of guttural vowels, and so forth.
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For example, the dwarf "Ninth Men" who are limited by size due to excessive gravitation, the flying "Sixth Men" who live a harsh existence competing their seal-like relatives, and the "Tenth to Seventeenth Men" whose sentience reemerges after the "Sixth Men" civilization crumbles into savagery.
Source: Evolutionary Levels -
The really fun thing here is that animated shorts like this showed many different examples of breaking the Code—excessive violence (though completely bloodless, of course) and (what was then) harsh language—simply because they were animated in ways that took everything to a level of pure parody.
Source: Useful Notes / The Hays Code
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