hangdog vs woeful

hangdog

adj
  • Low; sneaking; ashamed. 

noun
  • A base, degraded person. 

verb
  • To move or loiter in a sneaking or ashamed manner. 

woeful

adj
  • Wretched; paltry; poor. 

  • Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction. 

  • Lamentable, deplorable. 

  • Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity. 

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