brash vs saccharine

brash

adj
  • Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive, tactless or impudent; shameless. 

  • Overly bold, impetuous or rash. 

  • Bold, bright or showy, often in a tasteless way. 

noun
  • Broken fragments of ice. 

  • Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits. 

  • A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness. 

  • A sudden burst of rain. 

  • Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge. 

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 brash and saccharine occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )