eristic vs pettish

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. 

pettish

adj
  • bad-tempered; peevish 

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