beside the point vs nugatory

beside the point

adj
  • Irrelevant, moot. 

adv
  • Irrelevantly, off-topic. 

nugatory

adj
  • Ineffective, invalid or futile. 

  • Having no force, inoperative, ineffectual. 

  • Trivial, trifling or of little importance. 

  • Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained. 

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