dire vs kiasi

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. 

kiasi

adj
  • Unwilling to take a chance for fear that something bad or unfavourable will happen; cowardly. 

noun
  • A kiasi person. 

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