bad news vs misery

bad news

noun
  • News of unpleasant, unfortunate or sad events. 

  • An irritating, troublesome or harmful person, situation or thing. 

misery

noun
  • Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. 

  • A bodily ache or pain. 

  • Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. 

  • poverty. 

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