grim vs harsh

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. 

harsh

adj
  • Severe or cruel. 

  • Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses. 

verb
  • To negatively criticize. 

  • To put a damper on (a mood). 

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