grim vs horrid

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. 

horrid

adj
  • Causing horror or dread. 

  • Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable. 

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