dismal vs pretentious

dismal

adj
  • Causing despair; gloomy and bleak. 

  • Depressing, dreary, cheerless. 

  • Disastrous, calamitous 

  • Disappointingly inadequate. 

pretentious

adj
  • Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction. 

  • Intended to impress others. 

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