brooding vs scathing

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

noun
  • A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods. 

scathing

adj
  • Harshly or bitterly critical; vitriolic. 

  • Harmful or painful; acerbic. 

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