crook vs eristic

crook

adj
  • Annoyed, angry; upset. 

  • Ill, sick. 

  • Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard. 

noun
  • A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. 

  • A pothook. 

  • A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything). 

  • A bishop's standard staff of office. 

  • A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure. 

  • An artifice; a trick; a contrivance. 

  • A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal. 

  • A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds. 

  • A bending of the knee; a genuflection. 

verb
  • To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. 

  • To become bent or hooked. 

  • To bend, or form into a hook. 

eristic

adj
  • Provoking strife, controversy or discord. 

noun
  • One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious. 

  • A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest. 

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