captious vs crabby

captious

adj
  • Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky. 

crabby

adj
  • Visibly irritated or annoyed; grouchy, irritable, in a foul mood; given to complaining or finding fault in an annoyed way. 

  • crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. 

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