hellacious vs offensive

hellacious

adj
  • horrible, awful, hellish, agonizing 

  • nasty, repellent. 

  • Remarkable, unbelievable, unusual. 

offensive

adj
  • Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, or indignation. 

  • Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive. 

  • Having to do with play directed at scoring. 

noun
  • An attack. 

  • The posture of attacking or being able to attack. 

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