meretricious vs saccharine

meretricious

adj
  • Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring. 

  • Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic relationship). 

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 meretricious and saccharine occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )