distressing vs horrible

distressing

adj
  • Causing distress; upsetting; distressful. 

horrible

adj
  • Causing horror; terrible; shocking. 

  • Tremendously bad. 

noun
  • A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles. 

  • A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act. 

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