eristic vs whiny

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. 

whiny

adj
  • whining; tending to whine or complain. 

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