eristic vs snarling

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. 

snarling

adj
  • growling, having a snarl. 

noun
  • The act of producing a snarl or growl. 

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