admiring vs stinging

admiring

noun

  • admiration 

adj

  • Feeling or showing admiration. 

stinging

adj

  • Having the capacity to sting. 

  • Precise and hurtful. 

noun

  • The act by which someone receives a sting. 

How often have the words admiring and stinging occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )