eristic vs uptight

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. 

uptight

adj
  • Emotionally repressed; nervous and tense. 

  • Excessively concerned with rules and order, always serious. 

  • Sexually repressed. 

  • Unfriendly and rude. 

noun
  • An uptight person. 

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