better than nothing vs unacceptable

better than nothing

adj

  • Barely useful; almost worthless or pointless, but nevertheless better than having nothing at all. 

unacceptable

noun

  • Something that is not acceptable. 

adj

  • not conforming to accepted usage 

  • unsatisfactory; not acceptable 

How often have the words better than nothing and unacceptable occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )