guarded vs parlous

guarded

adj
  • Cautious; restrained. 

  • Watched over; supervised. 

  • When the practitioner formulating the opinion does not have enough information to know, or to foretell, what the outcome may be. 

parlous

adj
  • Attended with peril; dangerous, risky. 

  • Appalling, dire, terrible. 

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