killing vs sad

killing

adj
  • That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal. 

  • That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny. 

noun
  • A large amount of money. 

  • An instance of someone being killed. 

sad

adj
  • Causing sorrow; lamentable. 

  • Soggy (to refer to pastries). 

  • Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull. 

  • Appearing sorrowful. 

  • Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful. 

  • Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor. 

  • Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable. 

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