innocuous vs offensive

innocuous

adj
  • Inoffensive; unprovocative; unexceptionable. 

  • Harmless; producing no ill effect. 

offensive

adj
  • Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive. 

  • Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, or indignation. 

  • Having to do with play directed at scoring. 

noun
  • An attack. 

  • The posture of attacking or being able to attack. 

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