dismal vs not worth a dime

dismal

adj

  • Disappointingly inadequate. 

  • Causing despair; gloomy and bleak. 

  • Depressing, dreary, cheerless. 

  • Disastrous, calamitous 

not worth a dime

adj

  • worthless, lacking in value. 

How often have the words dismal and not worth a dime occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )