dreary vs gaudy

dreary

adj
  • Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless. 

gaudy

adj
  • Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner. 

noun
  • A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the long vacation. 

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