grim vs hideous

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. 

hideous

adj
  • Morally offensive; shocking; detestable. 

  • Hateful; shocking. 

  • Extremely or shockingly ugly. 

  • Having a very unpleasant or frightening sound 

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