cheerful vs stinging

cheerful

adj
  • Bright and pleasant. 

  • Noticeably happy and optimistic. 

stinging

adj
  • Having the capacity to sting. 

  • Precise and hurtful. 

noun
  • The act by which someone receives a sting. 

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