bad news vs sorrow

bad news

noun
  • News of unpleasant, unfortunate or sad events. 

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

sorrow

noun
  • (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness. 

  • unhappiness, woe 

verb
  • To feel grief over; to mourn, regret. 

  • To feel or express grief. 

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