dingy vs grim

dingy

adj
  • shabby, squalid, uncared-for 

  • dark, dull 

grim

adj
  • Ghastly or sinister. 

  • Rigid and unrelenting. 

  • Disgusting; gross. 

  • Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. 

verb
  • To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to. 

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