brackish vs saccharine

brackish

adj
  • Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste. 

  • Repulsive 

  • Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries. 

saccharine

adj
  • Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy. 

  • Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid. 

  • Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”). 

noun
  • Sentimentalism. 

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