benign vs merciless

benign

adj
  • Not harmful to the environment. 

  • Kind; gentle; mild. 

  • Not posing any serious threat to health; not particularly aggressive or recurrent. 

  • mild and favorable 

merciless

adj
  • Showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless. 

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