charming vs grim

charming

adj
  • Pleasant, charismatic. 

  • Delightful in a playful way which avoids responsibility or seriousness, as if attracting through a magical charm. 

noun
  • The casting of a magical charm. 

grim

adj
  • Ghastly or sinister. 

  • Rigid and unrelenting. 

  • Disgusting; gross. 

  • Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. 

verb
  • To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to. 

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