handsome vs plug-ugly

handsome

adj
  • Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly 

  • Good, appealing, appropriate. 

  • Attractively manly, having a pleasing face and overall effect. 

  • Fine, clear and bright. 

  • Ample; moderately large. 

  • Statuesque, beautiful in a masculine or otherwise imposing way. 

  • Generous or noble in character. 

  • Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; appropriate. 

plug-ugly

noun
  • An ugly person. 

  • A member of an American nativist street gang that operated in the west side of Baltimore, Maryland, from 1854 to 1865. 

adj
  • Very ugly. 

How often have the words handsome and plug-ugly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )