eristic vs malignant

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. 

malignant

adj
  • Harmful, malevolent, injurious. 

  • Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue. 

noun
  • A deviant; a person who is hostile or destructive to society. 

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