eristic vs infelicitous

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. 

infelicitous

adj
  • Unhappy or unfortunate. 

  • Inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done. 

  • Of a sentence or utterance: not semantically and pragmatically coherent. 

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