deplorable vs dire

deplorable

adj
  • Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched. 

  • To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable. 

noun
  • A Trumpist conservative, in reference to a 2016 speech by Hillary Clinton calling half of Donald Trump's supporters a "basket of deplorables". 

  • A person or thing that is to be deplored. 

dire

adj
  • Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal. 

  • Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous. 

  • Bad in quality, awful, terrible. 

  • Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing. 

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