mindless vs on-the-ball

mindless

adj
  • Having no sensible meaning or purpose. 

  • Heedless. 

  • Overly repetitive and unchallenging. 

  • Lacking a mind. 

  • Showing a lack of forethought or sense. 

on-the-ball

How often have the words mindless and on-the-ball occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )