backhandedness vs wit

backhandedness

noun
  • Insincerity, irony, or sarcasm. 

  • Deceit or neglect. 

  • Indirection. 

  • Backwardness of direction. 

  • The use of a backward flip of the hand. 

  • Leftward slant. 

wit

noun
  • Humour, especially when clever or quick. 

  • Sanity. 

  • A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty. 

  • The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints. 

  • Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning. 

  • Intelligence; common sense. 

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