ill vs saccharine

ill

adj
  • Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel. 

  • Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick. 

  • Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. 

  • Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be. 

  • Having an urge to vomit. 

  • Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard. 

adv
  • Not well; imperfectly, badly 

verb
  • To behave aggressively. 

noun
  • A physical ailment; an illness. 

  • Harm or injury. 

  • PCP, phencyclidine. 

  • Evil; moral wrongfulness. 

  • Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity. 

saccharine

adj
  • Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy. 

  • Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid. 

  • Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”). 

noun
  • Sentimentalism. 

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