eristic vs profligate

eristic

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. 

adj
  • Provoking strife, controversy or discord. 

profligate

noun
  • An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. 

  • An overly wasteful or extravagant individual. 

adj
  • Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly. 

  • Immoral; abandoned to vice. 

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