offensive vs scandalous

offensive

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

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

  • Having to do with play directed at scoring. 

noun
  • An attack. 

  • The posture of attacking or being able to attack. 

scandalous

adj
  • Malicious, defamatory. 

  • Wrong, immoral, causing a scandal. 

  • Outrageous; exceeding reasonable limits. 

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