malign vs vindicative

malign

adj
  • Malevolent. 

  • Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence. 

  • Malignant. 

verb
  • To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce. 

vindicative

adj
  • Vindictive, excessively vengeful. 

  • Vindicating, having a tendency to vindicate. 

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