frightening vs hideous

frightening

adj
  • Awful, terrible, very bad. 

  • Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary. 

hideous

adj
  • Hateful; shocking. 

  • Morally offensive; shocking; detestable. 

  • Extremely or shockingly ugly. 

  • Having a very unpleasant or frightening sound 

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