barbed vs biting

barbed

adj
  • Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic. 

  • Accoutered with defensive armor; barded. 

  • Bearded (also applied to roses, referring to the leaves between the petals). 

  • Having barbs 

biting

adj
  • Tending to bite. 

  • Causing a stinging sensation. 

  • Cutting or incisive. 

noun
  • A bite-sized snack. 

  • An instance of something being bitten. 

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