affable vs cantankerous

affable

adj
  • Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable. 

  • Mild; benign. 

cantankerous

adj
  • Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby. 

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