bad news vs subnormal

bad news

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

  • News of unpleasant, unfortunate or sad events. 

subnormal

noun
  • A person whose abilities are less than normal. 

  • That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal. 

adj
  • denormal 

  • Less than normal. 

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