eristic vs ugly

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. 

ugly

adj
  • Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome. 

  • Displeasing to the ear or some other sense. 

  • Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing. 

  • Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss. 

  • Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality. 

noun
  • An ugly person or thing. 

  • Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet. 

  • Ugliness. 

verb
  • To make ugly (sometimes with up). 

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