distressing vs ghastly

distressing

adj
  • Causing distress; upsetting; distressful. 

ghastly

adj
  • Horrifyingly shocking. 

  • Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal. 

  • Extremely bad. 

adv
  • In a ghastly manner. 

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